{"title":"Mother’s Day","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"a-fit-month-for-dying","title":"A Fit Month for Dying","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Fit Month for Dying\u003c\/i\u003e is the third book in M.T. Dohaney's highly praised trilogy about the women of Newfoundland's outports. Fans of \u003ci\u003eThe Corrigan Women\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTo Scatter Stones\u003c\/i\u003e will embrace this new book, while those reading the author for the first time will discover her characteristic bittersweet humour. Tess Corrigan seems to be living the good life. She is a popular politician, the first woman to serve as a Member of the House of Assembly. Her husband Greg is a successful lawyer and son Brendan is a seemingly happy hockey-mad twelve-year-old. Originally from the village of The Cove, the family is now comfortably ensconced in Newfoundland's capital city of St. John's. Urged on by Greg's mother Philomena, Tess sets out to unravel her convoluted family tree. She searches out her natural father who is living in a retirement community, or as he calls it a \"raisin farm,\" in Arizona. Ed Strominski was an American serving at the Argentia Naval Base when he married Tess's mother Carmel. Charming and outgoing, his one flaw was neglecting to reveal the small detail that he already had a wife. The stigma of growing up as the daughter of the abandoned \"poor Carmel\" has shaped Tess's life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInvolved with her own family problems and with her political work, Tess has no inkling of trouble when Brendan begs her to let him quit the Altar Servers' Association at their St. John's church. Always forthright, Tess insists that he fulfill his responsibilities to the organization. Her decision sets into motion a series of betrayals, revelations, and realizations that change forever her family and the village of The Cove. After a confrontation with the father of one of Brendan's friends, Tess is shattered by the disclosure that her son has been abused by their trusted priest, Father Tom. Shame and grief envelop the family and their world becomes as turbulent as the seas of Newfoundland. Deeply held beliefs are destroyed as the characters begin to challenge long imposed systems of cultural, political, and spiritual authority. But out of the ashes of Tess's life a small phoenix of hope arises in the form of Greg's brother who, on his way to a feed of capelin, reveals to her his own story of abuse and survival. Buoyed by his story, Tess begins to gather strength to rebuild her life, her family, and her faith in human nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eM.T. (Jean) Dohaney was born in the small village of Point Verde, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. She moved to Fredericton in 1954, where she completed her BA in English at the University of New Brunswick. She holds both a MA and PhD in literature from the University of Maine and Boston University, respectively. In 1988, she released her first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Corrigan Women\u003c\/i\u003e, which was followed by \u003ci\u003eTo Scatter Stones\u003c\/i\u003e in 1992, \u003ci\u003eA Marriage of Masks\u003c\/i\u003e in 1996 and \u003ci\u003eA Fit Month for Dying\u003c\/i\u003e in 2000.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"Dohaney's unfailing ear for dialogue and use of dark humour create characters almost too vibrant to be contained by the page. \u003ci\u003eA Fit Month for Dying\u003c\/i\u003e — which can be enjoyed without reading the preceding novels — is easily the best of the trilogy. The characters are more deeply themselves, the story moves with its own swift energy, and Dohaney's turns of phrase are more finely calibrated for emotional impact.\" — \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Her ear for both spoken and internal dialogue is stunning.\" — \u003ci\u003eTelegraph-Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e213 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: October 1, 2000\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"M.T. Dohaney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864923127\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$19.95","offer_id":31759451470,"sku":"9780864923127","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/244.jpg?v=1772701227"},{"product_id":"abode-of-love","title":"Abode of Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Kate Barlow was a little girl, she moved with her mother and her older sisters to a ramshackle English mansion. 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She served in the Women's Royal Air Force in the early 1960s where she attained the rank of Flying Officer — a bit of misnomer as she says women were not allowed to fly back then. They also had to leave the forces once they were married, so in 1965 she left the WRAF. Ms. Barlow raised two sons and waited until coming to Canada to embark on a new career in journalism. She studied at Sheridan College in the early 1980s, going on to a rewarding career as a reporter with the \u003ci\u003eHamilton Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e Ms. Barlow says it was the kind of career she had always wanted. \"I remember wanting to be a newspaper reporter when I was about 16 — was it seeing the press posse waiting outside the gates of the A after my grandmother died? 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An Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Guelph, she lives in Toronto and in an old schoolhouse in Eastern Ontario.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003e: Amazon.ca Best Books of 2013\u003cbr\u003e: NOW Magazine Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e: Canada Reads Top 40 Pick\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"Bush not only writes vividly about Toronto and Africa, evoking the children's gymnastic talents with great energy, but she gets to the heart of journalism's essential dilemmas, too.\" — \u003ci\u003eNOW Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Catherine Bush is a novelist who gets deep into your head.... Through her novels... Bush has acquired a reputation as a writer's writer. With her new novel Accusation, one hopes she'll get the acclaim she deserves.\" — \u003ci\u003eCord Community\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The novel is a pager-turner in a way and a kind of detective story. Unlike most page-turners and much detective fiction, however, Bush's realistic prose narrative is almost totally focused on issues relevant to reader's lives. I recommend it highly.\" — therecord.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Concentric circles spread steadily from the ethical dilemma at the novel's core, growing in depth and implication right up until a perfectly pitched and exquisitely surprising ending. Critical acclaim has never been in short supply for Bush, but there's a sense that \u003ci\u003eAccusation\u003c\/i\u003e, with a bit of good fortune, could also be her commercial breakthrough. ... Be assured that \u003ci\u003eAccusation\u003c\/i\u003e is that rare beast: a literary novel with the page-turning properties of the best genre fiction.\" — Postmedia News\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAccusation\u003c\/i\u003e is a tale of risk told in an assured and accomplished voice: compelling, unsettling, haunting.\" — \u003ci\u003eBuried in Print\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A persistent tapping at the complexities of prejudice — the accusations we harbour in our hearts — brings an unnerving friction to \u003ci\u003eAccusation\u003c\/i\u003e. — \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"While \u003ci\u003eAccusation\u003c\/i\u003e by Catherine Bush is a complex read, it is a great book exploring the nature of the human condition in the fast-paced era of ours. It is a book that needs to be read, thought over, and read again to completely understand the nature of our ways.\" — inkwellbook.blogspot.ca\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] powerful reflection on the nature of allegations. ... tense, intimate mystery . . . characters so vivid they captivate from the first page. ... The story is rendered in Bush's elegant prose, delivering lyrical moments that leave an impact. The language is careful, the narration intimate. The writing flows uninterrupted by quotation marks, pulling the reader into the rhythm of Sara's questions, insights and frustrations. \u003ci\u003eAccusation\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of yearning: the desire to know, and the limitations of that knowledge.\" — \u003ci\u003ePRISM Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bush's gift for crafting an impeccable phrase is more impressive than ever. ... Refusing to put her characters into cardboard compartments, Bush reflects the messy truth of real life. People are complicated blurs of conscience and cowardice. We run toward things as often as we run away from them. We gnash at old hurts even as we throttle forward. And Bush gets that.\" — \u003ci\u003eTelegraph-Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Be assured that \u003ci\u003eAccusation\u003c\/i\u003e is that rare beast: a literary novel with the page-turning properties of the best genre fiction. View it from a slightly oblique angle, in fact, and it could almost be a crime novel of the Scandinanvian variety, Henning Mankell or Karen Fossum striding headlong into the murkier reaches of human motivation.\" — \u003ci\u003eMontreal Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of 2013's finest fiction offerings.\" — \u003ci\u003eSalty Ink\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Concentric circles spread steadily from the ethical dilemma at the novel's core, growing in depth and implication right up until a perfectly pitched and exquisitely surprising ending. Critical acclaim has never been in short supply for Bush, but there's a sense that \u003ci\u003eAccusation\u003c\/i\u003e, with a bit of good fortune, could also be her commercial breakthrough. ... 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Jasmine, her 13-year-old sister, has run away from home and needs to be picked up at the bus terminal. It's the anniversary of their mother's accident and subsequent split from the family. Jasmine is determined to exact revenge. Their mother, now a flashy self-help guru under a new moniker, preaches \"willing amnesia\": liberation by deliberately forgetting and disowning the past.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut \"willing amnesia\" is no innovation: it runs in the family. The girls' grandmother and great-grandmother, both Holocaust survivors, have found their own superficially innocuous yet fiercely destructive ways to fend off memory. In separate struggles, the girls work to break free from the burden of their family's silence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTold in three major and two minor voices, \u003ci\u003eCricket in a Fist\u003c\/i\u003e offers sophisticated psychological insight. Lewis's rich command of language transports us into a world of richly imagined characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eNaomi K. Lewis was born in England, lived in Washington DC, and grew up in Ottawa. Her stories have been published in the \u003ci\u003eFiddlehead\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAntigonish Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGrain\u003c\/i\u003e. \"The Guiding Light,\" a chapter of the novel that began as a story, won the Fiddlehead Fiction Prize in 2007. Lewis now lives in Edmonton. \u003ci\u003eCricket in a Fist\u003c\/i\u003e is her first book-length work of fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"The emotional and psychological action in the novel is so rich and intricate that the reader is carried along through the decades of story without so much as a hiccup. 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Spanning a few days and several decades, \u003ci\u003eDrawing Down a Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e follows a woman-dreamer as she prepared to give birth. Speaking to her unborn daughter through journals, letters, stories, and eloquent imaginings, Harris's unnamed narrator calls up a distinctive cast of characters as she travels from the tropical warmth of the West Indies to Canada with its houses \"iced in snow.\" \u003ci\u003eDrawing Down a Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award in 1992.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaire Harris (1937-2018) was a Canadian poet of Trinidadian background who produced eight collections of poems. Her first volume, \u003ci\u003eFables from the Women's Quarters\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), won the Commonwealth Award for Poetry for the Americas Region. First released in 1992, \u003ci\u003eDrawing Down a Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry. Her work has been included in more than 70 anthologies and has been translated into German and Hindi.\u003c\/p\u003e Claire Harris was born in Trinidad, West Indies, studied at University College, Dublin, where she earned a BA Honours in English. She came to Canada in 1966 and settled in Calgary. In 1975, during a study leave in Nigeria, she first wrote for publication and was encouraged by Nigerian poet, J.P. Clark. She also earned a diploma in communications from the University of Lagos, Nigeria (1975). After returning to Canada, Harris became active in the literary community in Calgary working as poetry editor at \u003cem\u003eDandelion\u003c\/em\u003e from 1981-1989 and helping to found the all-Alberta magazine, \u003cem\u003eblue buffalo\u003c\/em\u003e, in 1983. 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When Shauna Singh Baldwin's debut collection was first published in 1996, it took readers by storm. Reviewers discovered a new voice; listeners tuned in to the stories on CBC Radio. Since then, Baldwin has written two award-winning novels and, in 2007, a second story collection, \u003ci\u003eWe Are Not in Pakistan\u003c\/i\u003e. Dramatizing the lives of Indian women from 1919 to the present, from India to North America, Shauna Singh Baldwin travels from the intimate sphere of family to the wasteland of office and university. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eShauna Singh Baldwin’s first novel, \u003ci\u003eWhat the Body Remembers\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1999 by Knopf Canada, Transworld UK, Doubleday USA, and (as an audiobook) by Goose Lane Editions. It received the 2000 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book (Canada-Caribbean region) and has been translated into fourteen languages. Her second novel \u003ci\u003eThe Tiger Claw\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for Canada's Giller Prize 2004. Shauna is the author of \u003ci\u003eEnglish Lessons and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eA Foreign Visitor’s Survival Guide to America\u003c\/i\u003e. Her awards include the 1995 Writer’s Union of Canada Award for short prose and the 1997 Canadian Literary Award. \u003ci\u003eEnglish Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e received the 1996 Friends of American Writers Award.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA former radio producer and ecommerce consultant, her fiction and poems are widely published in literary magazines and anthologies in the US, Canada, and India. She has served on several juries and teaches short courses in creative writing. Shauna holds an MBA from Marquette University and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. \u003ci\u003eWe Are Not in Pakistan: Stories\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Goose Lane Editions in 2007. 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Lenore's best friend Heidi, a professor of English, has persuaded Lenore to come to England with her for moral support as she tries to discover whether her handsome pen-pal \"boyfriend\" is the real deal.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAkin to \u003ci\u003eBridget Jones's Diary\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy Big Fat Greek Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuests of Chance\u003c\/i\u003e is a laugh-filled romp with two inexperienced thirty-something travellers, enchanting new readers and making those who met Lenore in \u003ci\u003eSomething Drastic\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOvernight Sensation\u003c\/i\u003e fall in love with her all over again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eA former playwright-in-residence at Montreal's Centaur Theatre, Colleen Curran is now co-artistic director of the Triumvirate Theatre Company in Montreal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"Sensational? You bet... 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If this book were a tree, it would have deep and thirsty roots; broad and elegrant branches; its leaves would always be tipping toward the light; and its fruit would be tangy and sweet.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Malahat Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMnemonic: A Book of Trees\u003c\/i\u003e (Goose Lane), Kishkan's newest collection of essays, contains some of her best writing yet. ... The essays in \u003ci\u003eMnemonic\u003c\/i\u003e transcend their autobiographical origins as Kishkan uses the personal as a lens through which to explore a broad range of interests. ... There's a wonderful sense of place throughout, and Kishkan's observant curiosity makes you think of Forster's exhortation in \u003ci\u003eHoward's End\u003c\/i\u003e: ‘Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted.’ \u003ci\u003eMnemonic\u003c\/i\u003e exalts.\" — \u003ci\u003eGeist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Whether discussing the olive trees of Knossos, Crete where she once lived or the displaced \u003ci\u003equercus virginiana\u003c\/i\u003e she knew as a child growing up in BC, Kishkan's mnemonic exercise and the result — ie, this book — is the consequence of her own evolving, unfolding perspective, told in wonderfully unadorned prose. Like the trees she so loves, her book is a living work.\" — \u003ci\u003eScene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMnemonic \u003c\/i\u003eis both tiny and astounding. Loss, life and love between two covers. 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The memoir is organized in chapters named for prominent trees in the author's life and meanders between personal memories, philosophical reflections, and impressively researched and always vividly presented and beautifully relevant botanical and literary intertexts. ... the book is a gorgeous read and contains breathtaking passages of associative brilliance.\" — \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Toronto Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, Volume 82, Number 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An astonishing book, a tribute to the unique and patient genius of its author. ... At once erotic, intellectually rigorous and beguiling, Mnemonic is cultural botany, memoir, arboreal ethnography and love story. It is a sublime and rare thing when writing so gracefully defies taxonomical classification.\" — Terry Glavin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Theresa Kishkan invites us into the company of her favourite trees, where memories perch lightly in the foliage. 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Yet nothing she has written can prepare you for \u003ci\u003eMr. Jones\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmmett Jones is adrift. Having firebombed civilians as a pilot during World War II, Emmett searches for something to cling to when life loses focus. Post-war, he becomes compulsively drawn to John Norfield, a former POW who has found his focus in communism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSet in a time of rampant paranoia, \u003ci\u003eMr. Jones\u003c\/i\u003e peels back the veneer of Canadian politics to reveal a nation willing to sacrifice its own. It is a fearful time, a time of \"peace\" at the onset of the nuclear age.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmmett's existence comes under scrutiny. His relationship with Norfield makes him a target of security forces. His marriage, his job, even his child are the target of investigation. And as the nuclear arms race heats up, Mr. Jones sets himself on a path that will risk the lives of everyone he holds dear.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvoking the classic works of le Carré and Greene, Sweatman's novel is a shattering exploration of a past where world governments threaten annihilation while training housewives in the proper techniques for sweeping up radioactive dust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eMargaret Sweatman is a novelist, playwright, poet, and performer. Her work has won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, the Margaret Laurence Book Award, the Carol Shields Winnipeg Award, and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. \u003ci\u003eNight Birds\u003c\/i\u003e is her seventh novel. She lives in Winnipeg.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003eWinner: Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted: McNally Robinson Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted: ReLit Award (Novel)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"It works as a story of identity, exile and loneliness: Emmett Jones' own identity is questioned to the point where he no longer knows who he is: husband, father, friend, civil servant, or none of the above, just an invented character in some Washington dossier. Sweatman describes what it feels like to see a face in the mirror, and the faces of family, and not recognize any of them.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Margaret Sweatman outdoes herself again in scope and skill level in \u003ci\u003eMr. Jones\u003c\/i\u003e.\" — \u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Emmett Jones is a fascinating new protagonist on the Canadian literary scene.\" — \u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is the relationships between her cast of characters that truly forms the arc of this story, their loyalties to one another as well as their betrayals.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Winnipeg Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"... a hugely compelling tale set in the heart of McCarthyism, of a former air force pilot caught in the unflinching scope of Canadian and American governments jockeying for position during the Cold War. \u003ci\u003eMr. Jones\u003c\/i\u003e is especially relevant today as a study on the expendability of Rights and Freedoms in the name of security.\" — Jury Citation, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMr. Jones\u003c\/i\u003e is an atmospheric tour-de-force.\" — \u003ci\u003ePrairie Fire Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMr. Jones\u003c\/i\u003e is suspenseful, evocative, and astonishing in scope. Here is communism as it unfolds in Canada during the '50s and '60s, the repercussions of the Cold War, espionage, and the explosive co-mingling of idealism and ambition. Margaret Sweatman writes all the dangerous fires — bravery, betrayal, loyalty, and love. Prose as lyrical and transparent as Ondaatje, as politically astute and fiercely clear-eyed as Didion. This novel burns bright.\" — Lisa Moore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With consummate skill, Margaret Sweatman brilliantly replicates the Cold War with its pervasive atmosphere of paranoia and doom while seducing the reader's empathy for her characters. Her novel may be 'historical,' but it stands as a stark warning of the ways governments continue to invade and trouble our private lives.\" — Mark Frutkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The paranoid '50s cracked open in unlikely places. Sleek, believable — essential too, like the missing pieces in a long abandoned puzzle.\" — Fred Stenson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e484 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: September 16, 2014\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Margaret Sweatman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864929143\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$32.95","offer_id":31759777294,"sku":"9780864929143","price":32.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/1187_368826be-b5e0-492e-a046-ab88b651d1a5.jpg?v=1772703272"},{"product_id":"night-street","title":"Night Street","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, Dobbie Literary Award \u003cbr\u003eWinner, FAW Barbara Ramsden Award \u003cbr\u003eWinner, \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e's Young Novelist Award \u003cbr\u003eWinner, Australian\/Vogel Literary Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNight Street\u003c\/i\u003e is the passionate story of a young painter, Clarice Beckett, who defies society's strict conventions and indifferent art critics alike and leads an intense private and professional life. With her extraordinary talent for making simple city and seascapes haunting and mysteriously revelatory, Clarice paints prolifically and lives largely, overcoming the seemingly confined existence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInspired by the art and life of the Victorian artist Clarice Beckett (1887-1935), \u003ci\u003eNight Street\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a painter who, having remained unmarried by choice, continues to live with her ageing parents. Hers is an existence which, from the outside, appears both restrictive and monotonous. In fact, it masks a vibrant and passionate hidden life. With a mobile painting trolley in lieu of a studio, Clarice makes her way through the streets and coastline of Melbourne at dawn and dusk where she creates sombre, enigmatic landscapes. Through her art, she enters into a world of sensuality and freedom, away from the constraints of a conservative and disapproving society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThornell is a beautiful writer. Her evocation of the painter Clarice, who fights against societal conventions whilst being pushed, to outwardly adhere to them, is powerful, eloquent and moving. The clarity and simplicity of Thornell's writing resonates through the book, highlighting its undercurrent of fervour and passion, as it propels the narrative forward with a masterful sense of poetic urgency.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNight Street\u003c\/i\u003e began with Thornell's first encounter with the paintings of Clarice Beckett at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The subtle power of Beckett's enigmatic landscapes enabled her to imagine Clarice's inner life and shape an extraordinary novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eBorn in 1975, Kristel Thornell grew up in Sydney, Australia, and the Blue Mountains. She studied French and Italian at the University of Sydney and spent a year in Italy, researching the author Giorgio Bassani and then teaching English as a foreign language. She has lived in North America for much of the last ten years, in Mexico, the United States, and Canada, where she completed an MA in English at the University of New Brunswick. She has also taught Italian language and literature, French and Spanish, and has published reviews, poetry, and fiction in a range of journals. She now lives in upstate New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003eWinner: The Australian\/Vogel Literary Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner: Dobbie Literary Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner: FAW Barbara Ramsden Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner: Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Novelist Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"Thornell brings her images to life on the page, and uses language in a way that is just as intriguing... For Thornell's Clarice Beckett, it was only about art always, and Thornell has created a convincing portrayal of a woman so absorbed.\" — \u003ci\u003ePickle Me This\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In real life, the Australian Clarice Beckett was a tonalist painter famous for her misted landscapes. Thornell evokes this same ethereality but, unlike Beckett, she reveals her own marrow only in the briefest of glimpses.\" — \u003ci\u003eScene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The novel manages to capture the paintings, and the life, of Beckett. Not much is actually known of Beckett, but portraying her life as a reflection of her paintings is inspired, especially as Thornell pulls it off.\" — \u003ci\u003eAn Adventure in Reading\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thornell's evocative, atmospheric language blends perfectly with her subject matter and is unquestionably what makes this novel such a unique read. The result is a portrait of Beckett that appropriates many of the techniques favoured by the painter, particularly, as Thornell acknowledges in the postscript to her novel, ‘squinting to soften edges and reach beyond detail in search for patterns of light and shade.’... Night Street is a beautifully crafted and compelling novel... Thornell not only enchants the reader with her well-balanced descriptions that resemble the very portraits and landscapes they describe, but also turns the reader onto a supremely talented yet tragically overlooked and undervalued painter, Claire Beckett.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Bull Calf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thornell has crafted a world in which a woman artist negotiates the constraints of her era and her particular circumstances. In doing so, she has created word-canvases that depict the dark and the light of Clarice's life. The novel is rich with patterns of light and shade.\" — \u003ci\u003eHerizons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this original and sensual novel, Kristel Thornell immerses us in the painter's experience and sees with her eyes. It's uncanny! She seems to write in brush strokes.\" — Joan Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNight Street\u003c\/i\u003e is a sensual novel with painterly undertones, smokey and lovely. The intermingling of a woman's art and her charged secret lives forms a rapturous alchemy, electric and haunting.\" — Mark Anthony Jarman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In language subtle and fluid as brush strokes, \u003ci\u003eNight Street\u003c\/i\u003e insinuates past the surface and seeks, like painting, the place where landscape and character is indivisible. Based on the life of Australian artist Clarice Beckett, the writing is flecked with arresting insights, ridged with life's exigencies. This is a touching, unusual, beautiful book.\" — Beth Powning\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e244 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: May 4, 2012\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kristel Thornell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864926722\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$19.95","offer_id":31759788430,"sku":"9780864926722","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/928.jpg?v=1772703320"},{"product_id":"on-the-eighth-day","title":"On the Eighth Day","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOn the Eighth Day\u003c\/i\u003e, Antonine Maillet imagines a solution to the world's problems: a wider and more exuberant world, with its right more left and its left more right, created on \"the day when everything is dared and anything is possible.\" She spins a tale of two brothers — a giant carved from an oak tree and a scamp shaped out of bread dough — born one remarkable night when magic made wishes come true. Thrilled to have a son to call their own, Mr. Goodman and Mrs. Goodwife play favourite and bicker over which creation is the better child, causing a rift in the family.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo ease the fighting, John-Bear and Big-as-a-Fist decide to set off to seek their fortunes. But first they must visit their godmother, Clara-Galante, to receive their inheritance. A witch who lives deep in the woods, she gives them three wishes and some kind words, before sending the heroes \"out into the world to follow their curious destiny beyond the hills on the horizon,\" left foot first for good luck.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWending their way through unforgettable lands — the Timeless Village, the Upside-Down Town, the Path of the Vicious Circle — the lads make many strange friends, who, peculiar as they are, seem strangely familiar. But, wherever Life leads them, Death lurks close behind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA wonderful picaresque akin to a cheerful \u003ci\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/i\u003e, a comic \u003ci\u003ePilgrim's Progress\u003c\/i\u003e or an Acadian \u003ci\u003eWizard of Oz\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn the Eighth Day\u003c\/i\u003e is a fast-moving tale starring richly developed characters in a funny and poignant road story in which allegory gains power by taking a back seat to enchantment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntonine Maillet, a native of Bouctouche, New Brunswick, has spent her life conjuring the impossible into being. She is the author of wry and wildly inventive adult fiction, children’s books, radio and television scripts, and more than a dozen plays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaillet’s sparkling imagination, versatility, and commitment to giving Acadian culture a voice have been recognized at home and abroad. 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In her acceptance speech, she said, \"I have avenged my ancestors.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Goose Lane Editions is proud to re-issue this classic of Acadian literature to mark the 400th anniversary of the founding of Acadie and the début of the novel's musical adaptation, \u003ci\u003ePélagie: An Acadian Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e. Directed by Michael Shamata, the musical brings together the words and lyrics of Vincent de Tourdonnet and music by Allen Cole. It will be presented at the Atlantic Theatre Festival in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, from July 27 to August 22, following successful runs at CanStage's Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto and The National Arts Centre in Ottawa.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis funny, lyrical account of a daring Acadian widow's journey home from exile is the Mother Courage of Acadian literature. At thirty-five, Pélagie is a survivor of the Great Disruption of 1755, when British soldiers deported Acadians who had farmed along the Bay of Fundy for generations. Splitting up families, the soldiers tossed men, women, and children pell-mell into ships and dispatched them to ports all along the eastern seaboard of the US and to Louisiana.  When it was heard years later that the British would tolerate their return to Acadie, thousands loaded possessions and children onto handcarts and set out on foot. After fifteen years of working as a slave in the cotton fields of Georgia, Pélagie, too, has had enough. Drawn home as if by a magnet, inspired by her love of her family and of Beausoleil, a heroic sea captain, and determined to outrace the \"Wagon of Death,\" Pélagie sets off to take her people on a 3,000-mile trek back to their homeland.  Her single cart, pulled by six oxen, soon attracts scattered Cormiers and LeBlancs, Landrys and Poiriers, Maillets and Légers. 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Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's characters are searchers — for love, for nation, for a belief to actually believe in — and their author has found a vital prose with which to bring them to life. \u003ci\u003ePerfecting\u003c\/i\u003e is rich in insight and artistry, both line-by-line and as a whole.\" — Andrew Pyper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePerfecting\u003c\/i\u003e ropes the backwoods of Ontario to the American southwest, offering up clouds of bees to contend with oil flares and guns. In all its marvellous strangeness, this novel hums with sometimes-violent life and the cadence of its supple, extraordinary sentences.\" — Catherine Bush\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: April 1, 2009\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864925152\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$22.95","offer_id":31759808910,"sku":"9780864925152","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/587.jpg?v=1778227283"},{"product_id":"paddling-in-paradise","title":"Paddling in Paradise","description":"\u003cp\u003eA kayak may seem an unlikely place for adventure, but that's exactly what you'll find in \u003ci\u003ePaddling in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e. Author Alison Hughes has created the definitive guide to sea kayaking in Atlantic Canada. Whether she is describing the exhilaration of experiencing the world's highest tides in the Bay of Fundy, or the pure beauty of the coast of Cape Breton, Hughes shares her deep and genuine conviction that life is only truly lived with paddle in hand.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePaddling in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, Alison Hughes describes eight multi-day trips off the coasts of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland, ranging from beautiful nature paddles that neophytes will dream about for the rest of their lives to adventures that will test the mettle of experienced sea kayakers and their guides. Photos and a map enhance each description, and each ends with a Fact File that includes contact information for outfitters, a list of special preparations or equipment, advice for travelling to nearby cities, detailed directions to put-in points, and suggestions for whale watching, cycling, and other activities that visiting kayakers would enjoy. \u003ci\u003ePaddling in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e also includes an introduction to the region and the unique appeal of sea kayaking as well as a chapter on trip planning, safety, and all aspects of camping along the shore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eAlison Hughes is a veteran photojournalist specializing in outdoor adventures, from rappelling and dog sledding to canoeing and kayaking. In recent years, she has become enchanted with sea kayaking, a sport she practices frequently from her home at Chamcook, New Brunswick, on the shores of Passamaquoddy Bay, an arm of the Bay of Fundy. 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She is the author of two story collections, \u003ci\u003eExile and the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eQuixotic Erotic\u003c\/i\u003e, whose vivid, electric prose has garnered considerable critical acclaim. \u003ci\u003ePrairie Ostrich\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003eWinner: Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"This first-time novel is one of the most powerful I've ever read. Kobayashi... has crafted one hell of a mesmerizing novel. ... I highly recommend this beautiful novel!\" — caseythecanadianlesbrarian .wordpress.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePrairie Ostrich\u003c\/i\u003e's unique and vulnerable characters pull the reader into their world...not an easy book to read, and the author's refusal to reassure us with pat, comfortable, happily-ever-after outcomes sets it apart, and commands respect...[it's] evocative, poetic language, and resonant, dynamic characters make it an urgent and memorable, thought-provoking work.\" — \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a quiet, powerful story... it's a heart-breaking story... a thought-provoking book, and one that makes you feel deeply for the people involved.\" — The Lesbrary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kobayashi's novel is immediately noteworthy in its lyricism. Despite the youthful narrative perspective, her life is rendered through a poeticism that exerts a dream-like quality over the fictional world.\" — Asian American Literature Fans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePrairie Ostrich\u003c\/i\u003e is the kind of novel you want your friends and your book club to read so you can talk about everything … Kobayashi's story is both current and universal... \u003ci\u003ePrairie Ostrich\u003c\/i\u003e conveys the bewilderment of Canadian culture through the eyes of a hopeful, compelling outsider with writing that employs the kind of carefully constructed prose that characterizes great Canadian novels.\" — Jael Richardson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As a harrowing account of a child's (and a family's) nine tumultuous and educational months, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Ostrich\u003c\/i\u003e ably introduces an inquisitive heroine simply trying to make order from daily chaos. If that child's ultimate actions ravage her home still more, they also suggest that hope can and change can sometimes be extracted from hopeless circumstances.\" — \u003ci\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Alberta's prairie landscape is brought to life with Kobayashi’s beautiful imagery and descriptive writing. \u003ci\u003ePrairie Ostrich\u003c\/i\u003e is an insightful story into the psychology of troubled families and the slow road to the recovery and re-connection of the family members. Kobayashi's characters are believable.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Winnipeg Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No wonder Tamai Kobayashi was recently awarded the Writers' Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize to a promising LGBT writer. I'd call \u003ci\u003ePrairie Ostrich\u003c\/i\u003e exceptional even if it weren't a debut novel. Kobayashi's pristine prose evokes both the Alberta terrain and Egg's emotional landscape as she makes the transition from naiveté to awareness. The author so expertly mines the metaphor of the ostrich that can never fly away, and Egg is superbly drawn, perceptive beyond her age yet young enough to be perplexed by mindless hate. \u003ci\u003ePrairie Ostrich\u003c\/i\u003e is compelling work.\" — \u003ci\u003eNOW Toronto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kobayashi's prose is as clear as a stream, with a current that brings the reader right along with it. \u003ci\u003ePrairie Ostrich\u003c\/i\u003e navigates the moment that a child transitions from ignorance to awareness, from a protective eggshell that denies her knowledge and which she must break. 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She lives in Winnipeg.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner: Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book, Canada and the Caribbean\u003cbr\u003eWinner: Amazon.ca First Novel Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner: On the Same Page, Manitoba Reads\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted: McNally Robinson Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted: Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted: Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Thomas writes like an angel... Her prose is carefully considered, troubled, alert to the texture of experience... singular, thoughtful writing that makes the world seem strange.\" — Globe and Mail — \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A stunning prairie novel... The dialogue between characters blends emotions and words in an alchemy of tension... If Joan Thomas is an unknown name to you, that's about to change.\" — \u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thomas's finely nuanced sensibility variously evokes Austen, Alice Munro, and Richard B. Wright. Most first-time novelists strain for the gold ring; Joan Thomas grabs it effortlessly in this wonderful book.\" — \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Like the man in the whirlwind, the reader of this fine novel is snatched away, deposited in a different place — and profoundly changed by the experience.\" — \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thomas's novel is a beautifully described and carefully detailed intersection of competing landscapes. ... Precise, complex, and elegant, Reading by Lightning flashes with wit and insight and illuminates our understanding of what it means to be a sojourner in all the familiar places.\" — \u003ci\u003ePrairie Fire Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book is destined to be classic of Canadian Prairie Literature. With writing as fresh and as beautiful as a Prairie landscape, Joan Thomas weaves a tale of mythical proportions.\" — \u003ci\u003eBlog Business World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Most first-time novelists strain for the gold ring; Joan Thomas grabs it effortlessly in this wonderful book.\" — \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Breathtakingly good.\" — Nikki Gemmell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Joan Thomas's writing is so precise, so surprising, that on any given page you might stop, only to read the words again slowly.\" — Kristen Den Hartog\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We experience this writing with our noses and ears and eyes and fingertips.\" — Lisa Moore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A compelling story burnished by spare and powerful writing. This is a fabulous novel, full of grace and delicious discovery, haunted by the flavour of memory and the prairies in World War II.\" — Amazon.ca First Novel Award jury, 2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lily Piper's search for home — a place where life can be at once familiar and momentous — is utterly absorbing, told with consummate grace.\" — Beth Powning\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In fresh, exhilarating, masterful prose, Joan Thomas's novel explores the question of belonging. 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Penelope-Marie Lancet, an immigrant from Trinidad who lives in Calgary, yearns for a child to the point of obsession. She sees a child as her salvation. Her fervour results in a false pregnancy and in her denial she forms a belief that the child has been spirited away from her.  As she formulates and executes a plan to retrieve her child, her personality fragments to the point of disintegration.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePenelope's fixation begins with a tragedy that occurred when she was a little girl: her one-year-old sister lurched out of her arms and plunged to her death. Penelope never forgives herself and searches constantly for the \"lost\" baby that would make her whole. Hearing of a black baby adopted by a rich white couple, she concludes that this is her \"stolen\" child, and she steals him back. Little by little, her already fragile self fragments into at least six personalities, all of whom call their outwardly more composed manifestation \"She.\" Each of these personalities is unique, each speaking in their own voice and dialect. Dealing with differing levels of awareness of one another, the diverse personalities seek to find their purpose within the whole as they write letters to Penelope's sister Jasmine, who lives in Trinidad. The more frenzied the letters become, the more they worry Jasmine. By the time Jasmine knocks on the door of Penelope's Calgary apartment, the discord among Penelope's different personalities becomes unbearable and her psyche unravels completely.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe\u003c\/i\u003e is a collage that cuts across conventional boundaries and creates a visual form of poetry and prose. 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She also earned a diploma in communications from the University of Lagos, Nigeria (1975). After returning to Canada, Harris became active in the literary community in Calgary working as poetry editor at \u003cem\u003eDandelion\u003c\/em\u003e from 1981-1989 and helping to found the all-Alberta magazine, \u003cem\u003eblue buffalo\u003c\/em\u003e, in 1983. She taught grade nine English in Calgary's Separate School system for 28 years, influencing generations of young people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"One of the best English-language poets in Canada today.\" — Dionne Brand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"From academic English to various Caribbean dialects and patois, from ragged prose to surgically precise and playful verse, Harris displays startling versatility in both voice and form. 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Anna is preparing an exhibit of textiles reflecting life in central British Columbia a century ago. In a forgotten corner of a museum, she discovers a dusty cardboard box containing the century-old personal effects of a Nicola valley woman. Fascinated by the artifacts, she reconstructs the story of their owner, Margaret Stuart. Margaret, the daughter of a Native mother and a Scottish-American father, she tries to fit into both worlds. She's taught photography by a visiting Columbia University anthropology student that she falls in love with.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith strong, poetic language, Kishkan makes the past reverberate through the present in a richly patterned work celebrating the complexities and joys of life and the sustaining connections of family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheresa Kishkan is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose. Her essays have appeared in \u003cem\u003eMemewar, Dandelion, Lake, Contrary, The New Quarterly, Cerise\u003c\/em\u003e, and many other magazines and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Relit Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the Hubert Evans Prize for Non-Fiction. Her collection of essays, \u003cem\u003ePhantom Limb\u003c\/em\u003e, won the first Readers' Choice Award from the Canadian Creative Non-Fiction Collective in 2009. An essay from \u003cem\u003eMnemonic\u003c\/em\u003e won the 2010 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"A novel of change and reconciliation, of the confluence of many worlds ... a tremendous accomplishment. ... An astonishing debut ... \u003ci\u003eSisters of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e is beautifully understated with a quiet grace that succeeds in transforming the regional to the universal, filling the reader with a sense of the mysteries of the world and humanity that can never fully be resolved.\" — \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Each page is suffused with the fragrance and visual delights of the west ... a natural, lyrical exploration of the senses, with the author's poetic roots evident in every passage.\" — \u003ci\u003ePottersfield Portfolio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Margaret's life begins to unfold for us — a life steeped in hard work and earthly beauty and gathering toward a promising future ... her story building at last to a strong and unsentimental climax ... 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A book to treasure.\" — Edith Iglauer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e206 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: May 1, 2000\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Theresa Kishkan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864922885\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$18.95","offer_id":31759878350,"sku":"9780864922885","price":18.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/828_36b0233a-9ad8-465e-a07c-6ff0854f3ba7.jpg?v=1753862878"},{"product_id":"the-douglas-notebooks","title":"The Douglas Notebooks","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRomain was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. At 18, he leaves his family for a home in the forest, learning to live off the land rather than his family's wealth. Éléna flees a house of blood and mayhem, taking refuge in a monastery and later in the rustic village of Rivière-aux-Oies. One day, while walking in the woods, Éléna hears the melody of a clarinet and comes across Romain, who calls himself Starling and whom Éléna later renames Douglas, for the strongest and most spectacular of trees. Later a child named Rose is born. Fade to black. When the story takes up again, Douglas has returned to the forest, Rose is in the village under the care of others, and Éléna is gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom these disparate threads, Christine Eddie tenderly weaves a fable for our time and for all times. As the years pass, the story broadens to capture others in its elegant web — a doctor with a bruised heart, a pharmacist who may be a witch, and a teacher with dark secrets. Together they raise this child with the mysterious heritage, transforming this story into an ode to friendship and family, a sonnet on our relationship with nature, and an elegy to love and passion. \u003ci\u003eThe Douglas Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e was originally published in French as \u003ci\u003eLes carnets de Douglas\u003c\/i\u003e. This edition was translated by Sheila Fischman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003e\nChristine Eddie was born in France, grew up in New Brunswick, and now lives in Quebec. \u003ci\u003eThe Douglas Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e, her first novel, won the 2008 Prix France-Quebec, the 2009 Prix Senghor du Premier Roman francophone, and the 2010 Prix du Club des Irrésistables.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003e\nAmazon.ca Best Books of 2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\"[A] timeless love story. . . . In a slim volume of sparse, poetic prose, Eddie deftly and movingly covers vast territory.\" — \u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fischman has taken care to retain the French flavour of Eddie's fable, a gentle touch that contributes to its rich textures . . . [T]he imagery is so crisp, and the travails of the forest and its inhabitants so heartbreaking, that what is on the page is hard to forget.\" — \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Eddie is an immensely gifted writer (the book was originally written in French in 2007, and has been translated by Sheila Fischman) who balances her succinct style with a poetic sensibility. Eddie understands subtlety in characterization, and her players are exceedingly real. Their actions, thoughts, desires and fears resonate with us because they're genuine, not overdone or melodramatic. Eddie conveys these things beautifully. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Douglas Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e is a subtle and deeply poignant story of a man who abandons the modern world and all its material trappings in search of the truth in nature. Perhaps, that's a wish that no one will ever be able to fully realize, but what's a fable without a little bit of fantasy?\" — \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The whole story has a dream-like or even mythical quality about it.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In a slim volume of sparse, poetic prose, Eddie deftly and movingly covers vast territory — what is means to be a family; the fragility of life and of nature; the impact of the war in Europe (woven through Gabrielle's story line) and progress and development.\" — \u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Douglas Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e is a demi-dream of a novella, existing simultaneously in a world of shopping centres and fairy tales. As a fable, it is at once tender and cynical, an ever-turning wheel. . . . The book itself is beautiful to look at and feels like a kinesthetic keepsake in the reader's hands.\" — \u003ci\u003eScene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nature's profound beauty. The healing silence of the forest. The wrenching tragedy of lives of lack and violence intersecting with those of excess and exacting expectations. Delicately crafted and carefully revealed, this is the world of Christine Eddie's \u003ci\u003eThe Douglas Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e.\" — \u003ci\u003eLife in Québec,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[F]or all those weary literary wanderers out there, tirelessly hunting through bookshelves both real and digital, this lushly evocative work is indeed a long-searched-for consoling treasure. A skilfully woven combination of magic realism, social commentary, and love story . . . Eddie creates a world populated with wandering souls, benevolent strangers, evil parents, magical clarinet solos, untimely deaths, and bittersweet endings. It is a fairy tale world for adults evoking the themes of war, love, death, destruction, and reconciliation. So effectively does Eddie draw us into her creation that we never feel the need to locate ourselves in time or place. . . . Eddie has written a modern fairy tale, full of magical moments and literary elegance, a veritable treasure for any reader who is hunting for a book that will console and inspire.\" — \u003ci\u003eMontreal Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A postmodernist, eco-critical study of a landscape uniquely Canadian. . . . Through her attention to the post-war progress narrative and its destructive effects on the countryside of Rivière-aux-Oies, Eddie has earned a place among the masters of contemporary fairy tale, offering a wonderfully articulated, thought-provoking, and touching narrative that is at once timeless and topical.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Bull Calf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Eddie slyly hints at the miracles that lie beneath the trappings of everyday life. This compact novel is about so many things: love, music, self-doubt, courage, the transformative power of nature, and all the things that make us human.\" — Barry Webster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A charming fable of love and wilderness, exquisitely written and entirely original. 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It is time that motherhood opened its gates to include everyone, not just the picture postcard stories.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe M Word\u003c\/i\u003e is a fabulous collection by a talented author and blogger, which is bound to attract readers from all walks of motherhood. The anthology that presents women's lives as they are really lived, probing the intractable connections between motherhood and womanhood with all necessary complexity and contradiction laid out in a glorious tangle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt is a book whose contents themselves are in disagreement, essays rubbing up against one another in uncomfortable ways. There is no synthesis — is motherhood an expansive enterprise, or is motherhood a trap? — except perhaps a general sense that being a mother and not being a mother are each as terrible and wonderful as being alive is. What these essays do show, however, is that in this age of supposed reproductive choice, so many women still don't have the luxury of choosing their mothering story or how it will play out. And those who do exercise choice often still end up contending with judgement or backlash.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe essays also make clear that women are not as divided between the mothers and the childless as we might be led to believe. Women's lives are so much more complicated than that. There is mutual ground between the woman who decided to have no more children and the woman who decided to have none at all. A woman with no children also endures a similar kind of scrutiny as the woman who's had many, both of them operating outside of societal norms. A woman who has miscarried longs to be acknowledged for her own beyond-visible mothering experiences, for the baby she held inside her. And while infertility is its own kind of journey, that journey is also just one of so many whose origins lie with the desire for a child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eKerry Clare reads and writes in Toronto, where she lives with her husband and daughter. Her essays, short stories, and book reviews have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCanadian Notes \u0026amp; Queries\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eToday's Parent\u003c\/i\u003e, and other fine places. She writes about books and reading at her blog Pickle Me This and is editor at 49thShelf.com. Her essay \"Love is a Let-Down\" was nominated for a 2011 National Magazine Award and appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest Canadian Essays 2011\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003e: CNQ Editors' Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"This is a powerful collection of stories by Canadian women of various ages, and every woman will benefit from reading it.\" — \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe M Word: Conversations about Motherhood\u003c\/i\u003e, a powerful, female-driven anthology of short personal essays, poems, and illustrations, tells the many stories women so rarely share. ... \u003ci\u003eThe M Word\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on the fickle emotional uncertainty awarded to mothers. It breaks down the walls of maternal isolation and offers companionship to anyone who has not had the fairy-tale journey to motherhood. These stories show us that the extraordinary gift of motherhood cannot be accepted without relinquishing something spectacular.\" — \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"That's what makes \u003ci\u003eThe M Word\u003c\/i\u003e so surprising, and also moving, gripping, funny, and, occasionally, really uncomfortable to read: the writers put it all on the table, all the confusion, ambivalence, difficulty, suffering, hope, despair, and insight that swirl around people's different experiences with motherhood, whether they are or aren't mothers, however motherhood is defined, and whether their situation arose from choice or accident, gift or tragedy. As many of the writers observe, there's a popular public story about motherhood that is all bliss, smiles, and cuddles. For many of them, there is plenty of bliss, but that's rarely the whole story and often not the story at all. \u003ci\u003eThe M Word\u003c\/i\u003e doesn't try to tell one story: it allows, even insists, on the coexistence of many different ones.\" — \u003ci\u003eOpen Letters Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There is a strong Canadian tradition of public discourse on motherhood, from the late journalist June Callwood's interviews with unwed teenaged mothers to Marni Jackson's memoirs, and anthologies like \u003ci\u003eDouble Lives\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBetween Interruptions\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe M Word\u003c\/i\u003e adds 25 thoughtful voices to the mix ... You won't keep this book; you'll pass it on to friends whose current vocation is changing diapers, or to friends who want a child, and those who don't.\" — \u003ci\u003eHerizons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A book about motherhood that includes those who never gave birth? Those who've been pregnant but never held a child? Halleluiah! Finally: a conversation with no 'us versus them.' Here is only 'us,' those who desire to 'be connected by this understanding of what it is to love and celebrate your children.' \u003ci\u003eThe M Word\u003c\/i\u003e offers what mothers (new and old) need most: to know we're not alone.\" — \u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anyone grappling with the role of mother is certain to find themselves somewhere within these true stories of pregnancy, IVF, adoption, stepchildren, infertility, miscarriage, SIDS, multiples, dead children, teenagers, abortion and, above all, stories of the searing joy found within the wholeness of a mother's devotion.\" — \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Whether you're a mother by choice or by circumstance, a woman without childlren by choice, circumstance or tragedy, or simply someone who has yet to decide which path to take, you'll find yourself in one of these stories. And not always the ones you'd suspect.\" — \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Books Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As I finished reading it, a close friend found out that she was pregnant for the first time. As we celebrated her pregnancy, I hesitated to pass the collection along to her. Superstitious and hoping to pretect her, I worried about giving her essays on loss and trauma and regret. But women deserve to hear a conversation about motherhood that is as beautiful and scary and messy and complex as motherhood itself. When her experiences of motherhood strays from the accepted stereotype, if it hasn't already, she'll know that she is not alone.\" — \u003ci\u003eLibrary Mama\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stop everything. Withhold judgement for a minute. I promise you \u003ci\u003eThe M Word\u003c\/i\u003e is not like any book you've read about motherhood.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Fernie Fix\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rather than attempting to resolve issues once and for all, or to glorify and idealize a madonna-like figure, \u003ci\u003eThe M Word\u003c\/i\u003e presents in alphabetical order a wide variety of the experiences of women who have embraced, eschewed or endured the experiences of motherhood in its many, different realities ... This book was a pleasure to read.\" — \u003ci\u003eKitchener-Waterloo Record\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe M Word\u003c\/i\u003e felt like a kind of emotional labour for the three days I was reading. This is a motherlode of deeply personal truths, generous and courageous souls, bearing witness to lives shaped, if not defined, by, well, 'life with a uterus,' as the foreword suggests.\" — \u003ci\u003eTelegraph-Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Would I recommend this book? I think so, but with a caveat. I turned to this to find communion, and a road map. To find other mothers facing things my partner and I are facing. In facing so many possible stresses, dangers, and unknowns, what the world needs is more complicated and probably 'uncomfortable' representations of motherhood ... So yes, I would recommend the book. I would say, it's a start.\" — \u003ci\u003eLemon Hound\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I'm not normally drawn to mothering books but I like Kerry Clare's work, so it was impossible not to be drawn to her anthology, \u003ci\u003eThe M Word: Conversations about Motherhood\u003c\/i\u003e, I knew I'd be in the hands of good taste and good writing, even if, as a Childless Woman, I couldn't actually relate. Well, what happened was this: I found myself not only enjoying the read, but relating. In a major way. Because, as it turns out, the essays are both about mothering and not mothering, about the exultant and the reluctant, the non-mothers by choice, the stepmothers by circumstance, women who will do anything to become a mother and those who will do anything to not. and in every scenario, the difficulties, joys, fears, the way life is changed for the better and sometimes for the not entirely better. 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Now, after several seasons of planting trees out west, the tough-minded hero of Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's visceral first novel has come home to northern Ontario to help reforest the ravaged landscape with a gang of filthy ex-hippies and idealistic students. Baking by day in the hot sun and tormented by mosquitoes and blackflies, Alma and her fellow planters relieve their backbreaking toil at night with sex, dope, and alcohol. But her brief passionate affair with a charismatic newcomer named Willem raises the ire of Karl (whose amorous attentions she has deflected in the past), and he viciously rapes her. Pregnant and alone, Alma flees to an abandoned mining camp where she and Willem once made love. 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A god-like ocean deposits many a thing, yet it also takes away. The 1960s blaze off shore and draw the island's inhabitants into politics, the Vietnam War, and the peace movement.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSound impossible? Not on Whalebone Island, AKA the Republic of Nothing. Where else can a dead circus elephant, a long-dead Viking, the discovery of uranium, a raven-haired castaway who may be psychic, an anarchist turned politician, and refugees fleeing from the United States all be part of everyday life? Where else is eccentricity embraced with such open arms?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this new readers' guide edition, complete with an afterword by Neil Peart, Lesley Choyce's novel about resilience, independence, and anarchy comes alive, leading readers to discover once again that everything is nothing and nothing is everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eNo one has a clearer view of Atlantic Canada's literary endeavours over the past twenty years than Lesley Choyce. He is the founder of the literary journal \u003ci\u003ePottersfield Portfolio\u003c\/i\u003e, and the publisher of Pottersfield Press. He has edited several fiction anthologies and has been the in-house editor of many books from Pottersfield Press including \u003ci\u003eMaking Waves\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of stories by emerging authors from Atlantic Canada. He is the author of more than fifty books in genres ranging from poetry and essays to autobiography, history and fiction for adults, young adults, and children. Among his recent books are the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Republic of Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWorld Enough\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCold Clear Morning\u003c\/i\u003e, and the story collection \u003ci\u003eDance the Rocks Ashore\u003c\/i\u003e. Choyce is the writer, host, and co-producer of the popular literary show television program, \u003ci\u003eOff the Page with Lesley Choyce\u003c\/i\u003e, which is broadcast across the country on Vision TV. He also teaches in the English department of Dalhousie University in Halifax and is leader of the rock band The Surf Poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeil Peart is the drummer for the Canadian band Rush.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003eWinner: Dartmouth Book Award\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted: Atlantic Booksellers' Choice Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"A triple-decker of a yarn shot through with mythic possibilities, it's part fairy tale, part adventure story and part coming-of-age testimonial; it manages to be earnest and absurd, poetic and humorous all at once ... a pleasure to read.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Reminiscent, both in wit and sensibility, of Stephen Leacock.\" — \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A little gem of a story that should be granted its appropriate label as a Canadian version of [Salman Rushdie's] \u003ci\u003eMidnight's Children\u003c\/i\u003e.\" — \u003ci\u003eMontreal Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Radiant with energy.\" — \u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Republic of Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e is an unpredictable universe ... It's this unpredictability that makes the novel a success.\" — \u003ci\u003eCalgary Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Choyce has mastered the skill of an old-fashioned story-teller.\" — \u003ci\u003eCormorant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Choyce takes this deceptively simple story and ... fills it with characters who are wry, warm, funny, and magical. This is by far the author's best novel.\" — \u003ci\u003eCanadian Book Review Annual\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Republic of Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e definitely has something to it.\" — \u003ci\u003eFFWD\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Republic of Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e is the product of a sprawling and original literary imagination, bustling with colourful and sympathetic characters, bursting with fanciful incident, and propelled by a relentless narrative drive. It is, quite simply, a good read.\" — \u003ci\u003ePottersfield Portfolio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is Choyce's best book yet ... a reminder that we all need to keep a little creative anarchy in our lives.\" — \u003ci\u003eMail-Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If you need a little Zen in your life, \u003ci\u003eThe Republic of Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e is a good way to learn to extricate yourself from the beaten path and find the wonder of nothingness.\" — \u003ci\u003eBrunswickan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Don't miss \u003ci\u003eThe Republic of Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Republic of Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e weaves an intricate, sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic narrative.\" — \u003ci\u003eDaily Gleaner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The fact that the book has lasted for 10 years is a testimony to its popularity in these days when few books retain any life or fame after a year.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Chronicle Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A contemporary classic in Canadian literature.\" — \u003ci\u003eTelegraph-Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Quirky yet compelling drama.\" — \u003ci\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An unpredictable universe ... It's this unpredictability that makes the novel a success.\" — \u003ci\u003eCalgary Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A national treasure.\" — \u003ci\u003eOttawa Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The written word is a powerful tool in Lesley Choyce's hands.\" — \u003ci\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Republic of Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e ... stamps the eccentricity of the rugged Eastern Shore in a reader’s mind forever.\" — \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Books Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e382 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: February 1, 2007\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lesley Choyce","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864924933\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$19.99","offer_id":31760013454,"sku":"9780864924933","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/380.jpg?v=1781165317"},{"product_id":"the-violin-lover","title":"The Violin Lover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in Jewish London in the 1930s, Susan Glickman’s \u003ci\u003eThe Violin Lover\u003c\/i\u003e is written against the backdrop of Hitler’s escalating campaign against the Jews. This beautifully written novel tells the story of Clara Weiss and Ned Abraham, “the violin lover,” brought together by Clara’s 11-year-old son, Jacob. A successful doctor and amateur violinist, Ned is pressured to practice a duet with Jacob by the boy’s piano teacher. Though reluctant at first, Ned is charmed by the young prodigy and surprised by Jacob’s dedication and passion for music. In him Ned sees his younger self, so young and full of promise. A friendship is soon built on a mutual love for music. A dinner invitation to spend Passover with the Weiss family seals Ned’s fate and a clandestine love affair begins. Although they both agree that no one must ever know — especially not Clara’s family — their affair inevitably comes to a crashing end, with disastrous, life-altering consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnfolding like a melody, \u003ci\u003eThe Violin Lover\u003c\/i\u003e is infused with music and told in three voices.  It is a powerful novel about the love one feels for family, friends, culture, faith and music, and the passion that comes with it — regardless of the outcome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eBorn to Canadians living in Baltimore, MD, Susan Glickman has lived in Montreal, England, the United States, and Greece, and travelled across Europe, Asia, and America before settling in Toronto. She has worked in bookstores, in publishing, and as an English professor at the University of Toronto. Known for her lithe, rich poetry and brilliant literary criticism, Glickman is the author of eight critically acclaimed poetry collections, including \u003ci\u003eRunning in Prospect Cemetery: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. 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There's Janos, a self-styled player and petty thug, who schemes to make it rich in post-communist Hungary. And there's Gyula and Zsofi, caught up in a revolution that will change the face of Hungary forever. Their lives are all connected by a conflagration of events: The legacy of wartime violence, past allegiances, long-buried rivalries, and secrets from the past.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough riveting narratives that spring back and forth through time, \u003ci\u003eUnder Budapest\u003c\/i\u003e captures the drama and ravages of the Hungarian Revolution and the eras that followed. A dark ode to memory, Kay's intimate spectacle demonstrates that actions have consequences, that the past cannot be shaken, that all events can carry the possibility of repercussion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eAilsa Kay fell in love with Budapest on a 2004 visit and has since lived there off and on for short intervals. She has taught writing at college and university where she has learned from her students to laugh a lot, swear occasionally, and always risk that leap of faith. Kay's short fiction has appeared in literary journals such as \u003ci\u003eExile\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. After twenty years in Toronto, she recently returned to her hometown of Fergus, Ontario. \u003ci\u003eUnder Budapest\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003eLonglisted: International Dublin Literary Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnder Budapest\u003c\/i\u003e becomes a riveting and tautly plotted historical drama. The author captures the frenzy and terror of the city as the Soviet tanks roll in, and the psychological impact the invasion has on her characters. Best of all, she never overplays the novel's chief metaphor: Budapest's tunnels, which act as stand-ins for the depths of human suffering and human endurance. Kay handles this symbolism like a seasoned pro.\" — \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Budapest imagined by Kay is not the city that tourists frequent. There is no sitting in turn-of-the-century cafes, no walks along the Danube, and definitely no postcard scenes of church towers and the wildly ornate parliament buildings. Right from the start, this Budapest is nasty, vicious, callous and brutal. ... \u003ci\u003eUnder Budapest\u003c\/i\u003e is a page-turner whose author is a brilliant observer of realistic detail, an uncompromising presenter of some fascinating characters, and an interesting adapter of Hungarian slang. Kay is an exceptionally talented writer who moves with ease between past and present, and between the voices and perceptions, beliefs and deceptions of each of her characters.\" — \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The result is her first novel spiced with suspence and history and with characters who linger on in the reader's imagination when the story ends. ... The author succeeds in her compelling novel, \u003ci\u003eUnder Budapest\u003c\/i\u003e, to reveal much of what lies beneath. As her deftly woven story illustrates for the current generation, the past is rich in stories, secrets and lessons.\" — \u003ci\u003eMaple Tree Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, Issue 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Alisa Kay's grasp of this understanding of history and story makes \u003ci\u003eUnder Budapest\u003c\/i\u003e a compelling read. ... her novel snakes like the Danube, with surprises around each bend.\" — \u003ci\u003eTelegraph-Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This story is very well told, deftly folding in long flashbacks to create a neatly paced and very evocative recounting of the heady, scary, exhilarating times for the idealistic young people who tried without success to rid their country of its Soviet overlords. ... [A] fine sense of place with marvellous descriptions of the gritty venality lying beneath the city of postcards and travelogues, Kay's Budapest is populated by schemers and connivers, corrupt police and casually cruel young people. 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Exploring the complex struggle for freedom against a backdrop of passion and repression, \u003ci\u003eThe Wind Seller\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of two vulnerable, shellshocked people and the \"wind seller\" who captivates them both.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLife in 1924 Kenomee, Nova Scotia, seems simple enough. Until, that is, a mysterious schooner blows into town under the cover of darkness, in desperate need of repair. Waking up to the giant black ship moored near their wharf, the villagers gather to take a gander at the Esmeralda and her crew. To everyone's surprise, there's a woman on board, and she shares the schooner's name. Claiming to be the captain's daughter, she wears men's clothing — young and beautiful, she is as fit and as strong as the men. 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In rescuing Aloha’s life from obscurity, they have reintroduced her as a significant and accomplished historical actor who was both a product and a purveyor of her times.\" — \u003ci\u003eBC Bookworld\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"She was a young adventurer, ready to take on the world without fear. Aloha Wanderwell, the book, is a fascinating look at her travels and her other exploits. She may have slipped from our collective memory for a few decades, but she is back.\" — \u003ci\u003eTimes Colonist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Aloha Wanderwell recounts over a decade of non-stop adventure (along tens of thousands of kilometres of \"barely existing roads\" on several continents). 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Too long for publication in most literary journals and anthologies, too short to merit book-length publication, the long poem occupies a lonely space in literature. M. Travis Lane is a master of the form, in which her considerable poetic skills reach their apex. There are few that match her brilliance. This volume collects all of her long works — most of them now out of print — from a five-decade commitment to the art.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eM. Travis Lane has long flown under the radar of Can Lit, crafting luminous poems and sharp literary criticism — much of it published in the \u003ci\u003eFiddlehead\u003c\/i\u003e, one of Canada's premier literary journals — but in recent years her work has been drawing the attention it deserves. Evidence of this recognition is her 2015 Governor General's Award nomination for \u003ci\u003eCrossover\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection the still-vital poet published at the age of 81. Her poetry is modernist, dense, and highly allusive, drawing adeptly on classical and biblical sources, imbued with a feminist and ecocritical perspective. Her musical lines, vivid metaphors, and phenomenological acumen launch her into the company of such poetic luminaries as Don McKay, Jan Zwicky, and Tim Lilburn. In the long poetic form, these qualities reach their highest expression. This volume, an exquisite collection that brings together her long poems for the first time, constitutes an important addition to the canon of Canadian literature and to the canon of feminist literature in North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eM. Travis Lane is the author of sixteen books of poetry and has been widely published in literary journals as a poet and critic. She has won the Atlantic Poetry Prize, the New Brunswick Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Bliss Carman Award. Her most recent book, \u003ci\u003eCrossover\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for poetry in 2015. She is a founding member, as well as Honorary President, of the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick. She also is a Life Member of the League of Canadian Poets, where she has participated vociferously in its feminist caucus. M. Travis Lane lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003eWinner: One of Quill \u0026amp; Quire's Best Books of The Year\u003cbr\u003eWinner: New Brunswick Book Award for Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"With a multiplicity of voices, these poems offer a generously imagined theatre of the human. M. Travis Lane's \u003ci\u003eThe Witch of the Inner Wood\u003c\/i\u003e is more than a rich, wide-ranging collection. Here is one of Canada's finest poets at work, revealing the power of her lyrical voice. A treasure of a book.\" — Anne Simpson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Canadian poetry has always had secret masters; poets who, without fanfare, deepened their style and vision — and extended the presiding genius of our tradition. M. Travis Lane is one of these figures. She has become, for our attitudinizing era, an especially powerful example of how emotional complexity and psychological depth aren't a matter of 'spontaneous overflow' but are built from lucid stanzas, uncompromising compression, and effective metaphors. These qualities can be seen in the astonishing long poems selected for \u003ci\u003eThe Witch of the Inner Wood\u003c\/i\u003e, a book that will cement Lane's status as one of our most significant poets.\" — Carmine Starnino\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'You either go or you get sent.' If you've never thought of poetry as page-turner, wait till you delve into M. Travis Lane's masterful long poems, collected together here for the first time. Hypnotist, conductor, and hobgoblin, she liberates life from its usual haze, so we may consider it in the changing light — so we must. Almost any single line by Lane seals the case for the necessity of the lyric. This welcome volume reshapes the narrative around the Canadian long poem, placing one of our finest poets at the centre of the rise of this widely beloved form, now an essential component of our literature.\" — Anita Lahey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"M. Travis Lane keeps the Aristotelian tradition in poetry: to move from lyric poetry to longer verse forms. Thus she has always done — with meet cadence, with right diction, with sweet wisdom. But the \u003ci\u003eCollected Long Poems\u003c\/i\u003e gather at long last her consistent achievement, her persistent excellence, her insistent, epic impulse. Lane accepts our collective debt to classical poets, the undead — deathless — bards of antiquity. The wording is precise, the imagery compelling, the verses supple. If you have not read Lane before, prepare to travel: like T.S. Eliot, she wants you to have a transporting experience in your imagination. If you \u003ci\u003ehave\u003c\/i\u003e read Lane before, prepare for fresh astonishment. She is Homeric breadth and Sapphic brevity in this suite of superb poems.\" — George Elliott Clarke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lane’s imagination, precision, and control of sound and image are as astonishing as the rich diversity of her subjects. This is a book to luxuriate in.\" — poets.ca\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e378 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: October 4, 2016\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"M. 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Ultimately, it was an opportunity he couldn't pass up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn their journey, Jan and Sam live and cook with locals, seeing first-hand how globalization is changing food, families, and cultures. In southeast France, they move in with a family sheltering undocumented migrants. From Bernadette, the housekeeper, they learn classic French family fare such as blanquette de veau. In a hamlet in the heart of Italy's Slow Food country, the villagers teach them without fuss or fanfare how to make authentic spaghetti alle vongole and a proper risotto with leeks. In Shanghai, they home-cook firecracker chicken and scallion pancakes with the nouveaux riches and their migrant maids, who comprise one of the biggest demographic shift in world history. Along the way, mother and son explore their sometimes-fraught relationship, uniting — and occasionally clashing — over their mutual love of cooking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA memoir about family, an exploration of the globalization of food cultures, and a meditation on the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, \u003ci\u003eApron Strings\u003c\/i\u003e is complex, unpredictable, and unexpectedly hilarious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eJan Wong is the author of five non-fiction bestsellers, including \u003ci\u003eOut of the Blue\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRed China Blues\u003c\/i\u003e, named one of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's top ten non-fiction books of 1996. (Twenty years later, the book is still in print.) She has won numerous journalism awards and is now a professor of journalism at St. Thomas University. A third-generation Canadian, Jan is the eldest daughter of a prominent Montreal restaurateur.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003eLonglisted: RBC Taylor Prize\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted: Writers' Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted: Taste Canada Awards\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"Jan Wong takes us on a trip through three of the world’s greatest cuisines to learn the secrets of their foods, as well as the civilizations—past and present—that underlies what they eat. From a farm family in France coping with globalization to the stubborn traditions of central Italy and the cultural confusion of today’s China, we meet the families and people behind the dishes—and learn how to make them as well. A wonderful story about Jan’s own efforts to bond with her son, \u003ci\u003eApron Strings\u003c\/i\u003e is what we have come to expect from Jan Wong: funny, insightful, and brutally honest.\" — Ian Johnson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of China\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sharp-eyed and intrepid, Jan Wong and her resourceful son Sam investigate at first-hand what happens in three cultures where people are renowned for practising and enjoying great culinary art as normal daily custom. The resulting report, spiced as it is with honesty and wit, lays out for us a rich and thought-provoking spread.\" — Margaret Visser, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rituals of Dinner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A sharp-minded—and famously sharp-tongued—reporter drags her fully grown, chef-trained son on a homestay cooking tour of France, Italy, and China. What could possibly not go wrong? Inquisitive, caustic, delicious, and can’t-look-away entertaining, this is Jan Wong at the peak of her powers.\" — \u003ci\u003eTop Chef Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For foodies like me, Jan’s book will be irresistible, but the fact is that anyone would love this book. \u003ci\u003eApron Strings\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most appealing, charming, loveable books I’ve read in years.\" — Stevie Cameron, author of \u003ci\u003eOn the Take\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fun and fiesty journey through three great culinary cultures around the world. Jan Wong's keen attention to detail and sense of humour make for a captivating read.\" — Jen Lin-Liu, author of \u003ci\u003eOn the Noodle Road\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Maybe the world could use one more culinary memoir, after all. Possibly even more, if they’re all as good as this one.\" — \u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wong’s keen journalistic eye makes for a fascinating, fact-filled journey from farmhouses in Drôme-Provençal to upscale condos in Shanghai.\" — \u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Clever, inspirational, and absolutely decadent.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Baron\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Apron strings may be for foodies, but Jan Wong’s \u003ci\u003eApron Strings\u003c\/i\u003e is for everyone.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Brunswickan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Irresistible in its charm.\" — \u003ci\u003eWinesworld Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I couldn’t put it down.\" — \u003ci\u003eFast \u0026amp; Fearless Cooking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Good stories, compellingly told.\" — Dean Tudor, food and wine writer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With a foodie's sensibilities and a reporter's demand for detail, Jan's prose reads like a poetic collection of recipes, capturing the local ingredients, kitchen techniques, and food rules that unofficially govern different cultures.\" — \u003ci\u003eEatdrink\u003c\/i\u003e magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If you’re hungry for travel but can’t get away, this should be at the top of your 'must-read' list.\" — \u003ci\u003eeat.live.travel.write.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eApron Strings\u003c\/i\u003e is dense in food history, customs, traditions and all the contrasts in between from school systems, familial roles and even water consumption.\" — \u003ci\u003eAlphabet Soup\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e384 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: September 12, 2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jan Wong","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864929617\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$24.95","offer_id":37997791502,"sku":"9780864929617","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/9780864929617_FC_4605b644-b037-4724-be55-8cc3de7f76b6.jpg?v=1781165623"},{"product_id":"uncertain-weights-and-measures","title":"Uncertain Weights and Measures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2017 Quebec Writers’ Federation Concordia University First Book Prize\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted, 2017 Governor General's Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted, 2018 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize\u003cbr\u003eNamed a Favourite Book of 2017 by \u003ci\u003eThe National Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoscow, 1921. Tatiana and Sasha meet in a bookstore the night it is bombed. In the aftermath of the explosion, Sasha grabs Tatiana's hand and together they run to safety. They fall in love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA promising young scientist, Tatiana follows her mentor, Dr. Bekhterev, to the Institut Mozga, established to study the source of genius. She thrives in the state-sponsored research institute, but Sasha, an artist, feels left behind in this new world where his art seems without place or function. A rift between them grows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Bekhterev suddenly dies, Tatiana is prompted to speculate about the shadowy circumstances of his death. Disconcerted and unable to find answers to her questions, she plunges into doubt — about her work as a scientist, her naiveté about the Revolution, her faith in the state, and her relationship with Sasha.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvocative and compelling, \u003ci\u003eUncertain Weights and Measures\u003c\/i\u003e takes place in the heady days of post-Revolution Russia, when belief in a higher purpose was everything. Written in beautifully incisive prose, Jocelyn Parr vividly captures the ambiance of 1920s Moscow and the frisson of real-life events while also spinning a captivating tale of a love torn apart by ideology and high-stakes politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eJocelyn Parr was born in New Zealand, but grew up on Canada's West Coast. Her writing has been published in France, Germany, and Canada and in magazines such as \u003ci\u003eMatrix\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGrain\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBrick Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. She now lives in Montreal, where she teaches history at Dawson College.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003eWinner: Quebec Writers’ Federation Concordia University First Book Prize\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted: Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003e: Named a favourite book by \u003ci\u003eThe National Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted: Kobo Emerging Writer Prize\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted: International Dublin Literary Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"The story of a Russia—and a love—at the precipice, poised between dreaming and giving in. As in Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels or Bellow’s \u003ci\u003eSeize the Day\u003c\/i\u003e, Parr’s characters seem to move under the surface of the page—breathing, changing, flawed, and resilient.\" — Sean Michaels, author of \u003ci\u003eUs Conductors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An illuminating and assured debut. Parr deftly incorporates her historical research into an affecting story about a young woman grappling with the tense intersections between art and science, politics and idealism, duty and love.\" — Catherine Cooper, author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Elephant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A historical novel that feels refreshingly contemporary, \u003ci\u003eUncertain Weights and Measures\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the tensions between ideology and conviction, politics and art, truth and power. This remarkable debut novel is both a compelling love story and a thoughtful exploration of the human heart and mind.\" — Johanna Skibsrud, author of \u003ci\u003eQuartet for the End of Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUncertain Weights and Measures\u003c\/i\u003e goes for it and gets there.\" — \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this confident and accomplished novel, Parr creates a detailed portrait of a world haunted by the past but uncertain of its future direction.\" — \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Books Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Could very well be read as a cautionary allegory of our own 'brave and visionary time.'\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A great book for lovers of history and science.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Waterloo Region Record\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Parr's penetrating, incisive prose places the reader amid the thrilling, frightening milieu of real-life 1920s Moscow... 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In the shattering aftermath, his widow, Maslen, questions her own capacity for love and undertakes a painful self-inquiry, examining the history of her heart and tracing the fault lines of her own fragile identity. What emerges is a mesmerizing tour of a woman's complex past, rendered in the associative logic of memory and desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA gifted storyteller reminiscent of Alice Munro or Joan Didion, Karen Smythe finds poetic complexity in the seeming trivialities of the ordinary. Meditative, philosophical, and confessional, \u003ci\u003eThis Side of Sad\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative and piercing novel that explores the disintegration of a marriage; the enduring colloquy between the living and the dead; and the meaning we find within the random architecture of despair and joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eKaren Smythe is the author of a short-story collection, \u003ci\u003eStubborn Bones\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFiguring Grief\u003c\/i\u003e, a groundbreaking analysis of the depiction of mourning in fiction by Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, Virginia Woolf, Edna O'Brien, and others. Her stories have also appeared in \u003ci\u003eGrain\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eFiddlehead\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAntigonish Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eGaspereau Review\u003c\/i\u003e. 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Her characters show us how we are all repeatedly reconstituted by love and how, for better or worse, we must accept what we thought we couldn’t and find a way to live with the different versions of ourselves as we navigate our own lives.\" — Diane Schoemperlen, author of \u003ci\u003eThis Is Not My Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThis Side of Sad\u003c\/i\u003e is as intimate as a best friend’s confession, as well wrought as a fine clay vessel, and as consoling as only a fine blues tune can be.\" — Antanas Sileika, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Barefoot Bingo Caller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sensitive and authentic, \u003ci\u003eThis Sad of Sad\u003c\/i\u003e brims with introspection, wry humour, and Karen Smythe’s signature literary grace. The story will remain rooted in your heart and mind.\" — Danila Botha, author of \u003ci\u003eFor All the Men (and Some of the Women) I've Known\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A courageous debut novel and one of the most searing explorations of love and grief you will ever read. This is writing that probes as deeply as fiction can the conflicting emotions that ensue upon devastating loss. \u003ci\u003eThis Side of Sad\u003c\/i\u003e is a dramatically vivid work of fiction.\" — Ian Colford, author of \u003ci\u003ePerfect World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Smythe’s prose is powerful.\" — \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Singularly fascinating.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Miramichi Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThis Side of Sad\u003c\/i\u003e [is] a stunner.\" — \u003ci\u003e49th Shelf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A powerful and exonerating read.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Minerva Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: September 5, 2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Karen Smythe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864929853\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$22.95","offer_id":37997791950,"sku":"9780864929853","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/9780864929853_FC.jpg?v=1778141744"},{"product_id":"f-bomb","title":"F-Bomb","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted, 2018 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom pop icons to working mothers, women are abandoning feminism in unprecedented numbers. Even scarier, they are also leading the charge to send it to its grave. Across North America, women head anti-feminist PR campaigns; they support anti-feminist politicians; they're behind lawsuits to silence the victims of campus rape; they participated in Gamergate, the violent, vitriolic anti-women-in-technology movement; and they're on the frontlines of the fight to end abortion rights. Everywhere we turn there's evidence an anti-feminist bomb has exploded, sometimes detonated by the unlikeliest suspects. Between women who say they don't need feminism and women who can't agree on what feminism should be, the challenges of fighting for gender equality have never been greater.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eF-Bomb\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers on a witty, insightful, and deeply fascinating journey into today's anti-feminist universe. Through a series of dispatches from the frontlines of the new gender wars, Lauren McKeon explores generational attitudes, debates over inclusiveness, and differing views on the intersection of race, class, and gender. She asks the uncomfortable question: if women aren't connecting with feminism, what's wrong with it? And she confronts the uncomfortable truth: for gender equality to prevail, we first need to understand where feminism has gone wrong and where it can go from here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLauren McKeon was the editor of Canada's progressive, independent \u003ci\u003eThis Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e from 2011 to 2016. While at \u003ci\u003eThis\u003c\/i\u003e, Lauren helmed one of the bestselling issues in recent years, \"Why Canada Need More Feminism,\" and also organized a sold-out event on the topic, which headlined a diverse, intersectional roster of speakers. Before leading \"This,\" Lauren worked as a reporter, editor and writer in the North for several years, living in Yellowknife and travelling Canada's territories and northern Alberta.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, she is the digital editor at \u003ci\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/i\u003e and a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eToronto Life\u003c\/i\u003e, where she wrote about her experiences with sexual assault in \u003ci\u003e15 Years of Silence\u003c\/i\u003e. In response, Lauren has heard from dozens of women around the world who've shared their own experiences — some for the first time — and was prominently featured in the documentary \u003ci\u003ePTSD: Beyond Trauma\u003c\/i\u003e, which aired in January 2017 on David Suzuki's \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Things\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLauren's personal essays, which tackle the world and her experiences through a not-so-rosy feminist lens, have twice been featured on Longreads.com, a popular site dedicated to \"helping people find and share the best storytelling in the world.\" Her long-form writing has won her several Canadian National Magazine Awards, including four honorable mentions, one silver, and in 2015, a gold in the personal journalism category for her \u003ci\u003eToronto Life\u003c\/i\u003e piece \"Save me From My Workout.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLauren writes for \u003ci\u003eHazlitt\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFlare\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReader's Digest\u003c\/i\u003e, and TVO.org.  One of her essays also appears in \u003ci\u003eBest Canadian Essays 2017\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003e: Named a 2017 Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003ePickle Me This\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted: Kobo Emerging Writer Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"However you define feminism, read this book. McKeon’s chronicle of our collective Conditions of Persistence reveals the ravages of exclusion, organized opposition, and denial. This compassionate airing of our failings clears the ways forward. Race, privilege, gender, sexuality; the work to be done, your invitation to the conversation, is here.\" — Karen Walton, screenwriter, \u003ci\u003eOrphan Black\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lauren McKeon’s \u003ci\u003eF-Bomb\u003c\/i\u003e is the antidote to feeling at a loss for examples of why intersectional feminism is so very urgently needed now. With a journalist’s attention to research and context, an activist’s drive for meaningful action and policy-change, and a memoirist’s craft, McKeon has written a necessary call to action.\" — Erin Wunker, author, \u003ci\u003eNotes from a Feminist Killjoy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eF-Bomb\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderfully uncomfortable peek into the lives and perspectives of folks who need to be seen, heard, and understood for the good of the feminist movement. McKeon mixes deep introspection with a s#!tload of research to bring us a much-needed commentary that will both anger and inspire you.\" — Rachel Ricketts, founder, lossandfoundxo.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In absorbing passages that evoke the seduction and subterfuge found in spy thrillers, McKeon chronicles her encounters with female leaders of men’s rights groups.\" — \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Books Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eF-Bomb\u003c\/i\u003e isn’t a typical creative non-fiction or narrative book — it’s blunt, honest and well-researched. It’s the book to read on the current political climate.\" — \u003ci\u003eFLURT Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In a manner that is both personal and unpretentious, McKeon deftly critiques more palatable ‘empowerment’ and ‘choice’ narratives of feminism, and demonstrates why our feminism(s) must be intersectional, embrace difference, and begin with compassion.\" — \u003ci\u003eThis Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"McKeon’s interviews and research shed much-needed light on feminism via its most ardent critics.\" — \u003ci\u003eUnderstorey Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Now comes \u003ci\u003eF-Bomb\u003c\/i\u003e, in which Lauren McKeon ventures to interview and understand women vociferously against feminism. It gets ugly, but she handles it with aplomb.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Straight Dope\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"McKeon proves a trustworthy and entertaining guide taking us through the tangled mess of lies, deliberate misunderstandings, and sad self-centredness that characterize the groups arrayed against the progress of feminism.\" — \u003ci\u003eLiisBeth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: September 19, 2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lauren McKeon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864929945\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$22.95","offer_id":37997792142,"sku":"9780864929945","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/9780864929945_FC_6cd536e2-adfe-4663-93b7-b7c6a7a0420f.jpg?v=1781079455"},{"product_id":"marlene-creates","title":"Marlene Creates","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"... I was able to make a simple gesture which left no permanent mark on the land.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1979 Marlene Creates signaled her intent. In contrast to the monumental earthworks of that time, she revealed that her interest in the intersection of art and the natural world was with the ephemeral, the small scale, and the non-monumental, and with \u003ci\u003eplace\u003c\/i\u003e, \"not as a geographical location,\" she writes, \"but as a \u003ci\u003eprocess\u003c\/i\u003e that involves memory, multiple narratives, ecology, language, and both scientific and vernacular knowledge.\" Supplementing the impermanence of her artistic gestures with the technology of photography, Creates found an audience and created a body of work without peer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCreates has sensitvely probed the relationship between human experience and the natural world for almost four decades. 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Schwartz, nature writer Robert Macfarlane, and poet Don McKay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarlene Creates: Places, Paths, and Pauses\u003c\/i\u003e accompanies a major retrospective touring exhibition organized by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in partnership with the Dalhousie Art Gallery. It will open in Fredericton in September 2017 and thereafter will be shown at galleries in Halifax, Charlottetown, St. John's, and other venues in central and western Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eFor over forty years, Susan Gibson Garvey has been active in the Canadian visual arts community as an artist, educator, critic, curator, and gallery director. She was the Curator and later the director of the Dalhousie Art Gallery from 1990 to 2007.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrea Kunard taught for over a decade at Carleton University, Queen's University and Nova Scotia College of Art \u0026amp; Design University. 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In the face of overwhelming loss, the grandmothers of Africa stepped in to hold families and communities together. Author Joanna Henry and photographer Alexis MacDonald visited eight African countries, interviewing and photographing hundreds of grandmothers (including Sarah Obama, Barack Obama's grandmother) who are reclaiming hope and resurrecting lives. The extraordinary images and stories of resourceful women fighting for a better future make \u003ci\u003ePowered by Love\u003c\/i\u003e an inspiration for everyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWrites journalist-social activist Michele Landsberg, \"We thought we knew what was happening in Africa when the AIDS pandemic raged across the continent, sweeping away 35 million lives. But we never knew it the way this book reveals it, in the shockingly intimate voices of the grandmothers who had to save the abandoned children when no one else was left alive. These voices will leap straight into your heart. Their unguarded faces, in portraits that glow with character, pain and humour, will captivate you.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2006, the Stephen Lewis Foundation launched a campaign to engage Canadian grandmothers to support their African sisters. The Grandmothers Campaign, now a movement 10,000 strong, has raised over $25 million that has gone directly into the hands of African grandmothers and their grassroots organizations. \u003ci\u003ePowered by Love\u003c\/i\u003e joins this campaign by telling the story of these indomitable women and by directing all royalties from the sale of the book to African grandmothers raising children orphaned by AIDS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eWhether it was floods in Mozambique or famine in Malawi, Joanna Henry's job as part of a disaster aid team in Africa began to make her feel part of a \"colonizing\" power, fuelled by and serving the interests of western nations. Searching for a better way, she discovered and joined the \"feminist, ethical, founded on equity\" work of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. Her profoundly felt dedication to interviewing the African grandmothers and writing this books was truly \"powered by love.\" This is Joanna's first book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIlana Landsberg-Lewis has spent her entire adult life engaged in the struggle for the rights of women and girls. From her early days as a human rights lawyer to her years at UNIFEM, Ilana has worked with women's groups around the world and has learned that no amount of so-called expertise can replace that of women at the frontlines of their own struggle for justice. Ilana has been the executive director of the Stephen Lewis Foundation since she founded it with her father in 2003. She has been deeply honoured and grateful to learn from the indomitable grandmothers of this remarkable movement the world over.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexis MacDonald is the director of external relations for the Stephen Lewis Foundation and a Toronto-based photographer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003e: One of the top-selling Canadian nonfiction books of the year\u003cbr\u003e: A CBC Books #1 bestseller\u003cbr\u003e: A \u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller\u003cbr\u003eWinner: Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association Best Atlantic Published Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"If you’re looking for a book that renews your faith in humanity, this is it.\" — \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Books Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePowered by Love\u003c\/i\u003e is humbling and devastating and galvanising. It is testament not only to the power of love but to the power of older women to change the world.\" — \u003ci\u003eUnderstorey Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePowered by Love\u003c\/i\u003e brings the collective power of love and unity to life in an otherwise bleak world…a must read.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Brunswickan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePowered by Love\u003c\/i\u003e is the untold account of AIDS in Africa. And it’s an inspired glimpse into a social movement that has held hands, wiped tears, emboldened communities, provided hope and helped sustain a continent.\" — \u003ci\u003eSee Change Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is where the heart of Feminism beats for me... If you want to really know about the strength of Feminine power, check out this amazing book.\" — Annie Lennox\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An extraordinarily moving book, filled to the brim with every extreme of the human condition, from unimaginable loss to indescribable love and profound solidarity. This is a movement that re-defines what it means to be a grandmother - and inpires us to discover the power we have as women when we join hands across continents in struggle.\" — Jane Fonda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign is truly an inspiring and innovative movement, mobilizing a grandmother's fierce love for her family to challenge AIDS in Africa. \u003ci\u003ePowered by Love\u003c\/i\u003e shares heartfelt testimonies of women who transformed their loss into a powerful narrative.\" — Kofi Annan Foundation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePowered by Love\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that will both break your heart wide open and inspire you.\" — \u003ci\u003eA\u0026amp;U Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e296 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: October 10, 2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Joanna Henry, Ilana Landsberg-Lewis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9781773100210\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$35","offer_id":37997792718,"sku":"9781773100210","price":35.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/9781773100210_FC_2fc609c2-588b-40dd-9c2a-e5be97a9f3bf.jpg?v=1772707224"},{"product_id":"la-maison-peinte-de-maud-lewis-french","title":"La Maison peinte de Maud Lewis","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaud Lewis a peint l’intérieur de sa minuscule maison d’une seule pièce — : pas seulement les murs, mais aussi l’intérieure et l’extérieure des portes, les cadres de fenêtres, les boîtes à pain, le petit escalier menant au grenier, le poêle à bois, bref tout ce qu’elle avait sous la main. 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I love her prose.\" — Joseph Boyden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Like the best contemporary novels, Genevieve Scott’s \u003ci\u003eCatch My Drift\u003c\/i\u003e is alchemical. Scott harnesses the flinty realism and breathtaking prose of short fiction, mixes it with the emotional urgency and scope of a layered intergenerational drama and creates a compelling and thoroughly original portrait of the modern family. Rendered with sensitivity and insight, \u003ci\u003eCatch My Drift\u003c\/i\u003e is elegant, ambitious and tender, a rare novel in which an entire family comes of age.\" — Nancy Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An ending I feared would be heartbreaking but ended up being perfect and beautiful.\" — \u003ci\u003ePickle Me This\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An affecting novel-in-stories whose cleverness and comic moments intersect evocatively with moments of loss and regret.\" — \u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A beautiful and bittersweet life story that needs to be on your summer reading list.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Miramichi Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A compelling novel about a mother and daughter.\" — \u003ci\u003eConsumed by Ink\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: April 3, 2018\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Genevieve Scott","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864929884\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$22.95","offer_id":44412361486,"sku":"9780864929884","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/9780864929884_FC.jpg?v=1778747161"},{"product_id":"the-hunter-and-the-wild-girl","title":"The Hunter and the Wild Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, City of Victoria Butler Book Prize \u003cbr\u003eFinalist, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize \u003cbr\u003eA National Post Best Book of 2015 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Hunter and the Wild Girl\u003c\/i\u003e is powerful, almost elemental storytelling, an achievement not only of craft but of raw emotion. It pulses with vitality, building to a stunning, shattering conclusion.\" — Robert Weirsema, \u003ci\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A rich, immersive experience. Pauline Holdstock’s is the kind of prose you get lost in.”  — \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story begins with the crack of splintered boards and bones as a feral girl crashes out of the hut where she’s been held against her will and into the scrubland of southern France. Townsfolk chase her to the edge of a deep gorge.  She leaps and vanishes into legend — and into the territory of Peyre Rouff, a once-renowned hunter who spends his days fending off his own demons in an abandoned château. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePauline Holdstock sets this absorbing novel in the blurry territory between myth and reality. The girl and the hunter inhabit radically different worlds. The wild girl’s is rooted in the physical, a source of food and danger, Rouff’s in the cerebral, an existence patterned to prevent him from the destruction of despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen their two worlds unexpectedly collide, this odd pair of outsiders forms an unlikely bond. The girl’s untamed spirit and volatility shakes the hunter from his solitude. The hunter’s unexpected kindness provides the girl with a sense of connection. But when the wider world learns of the girl's presence, Rouff is forced to confront both his choices and their consequences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWild and unpredictable, lush and sensually evocative, \u003ci\u003eThe Hunter and the Wild Girl\u003c\/i\u003e courses with mythical life blood, resonant, disquieting, and fathoms deep.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003ePauline Holdstock is the author of seven novels, including \u003ci\u003eInto the Heart of the Country\u003c\/i\u003e, longlisted for the 2012 Giller Prize, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Measure\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the 2004 Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Canada and Caribbean Region, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Hunter and the Wild Girl\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives on Vancouver Island and in the Languedoc region of France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"Possibly the most arresting aspect of the novel, apart from the exquisite sense of place, is Holdstock's implied invitation to consider the essence of a human being.\" — \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A thorough examination of what, exactly, it means to be a person — a question more daunting than any human antagonist, and one Holdstock raises gradually, with great skill and a light tough.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe National Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Holdstock's 19th-century story of connection between this odd pairing of psychological isolates hints at great depth beneath the surface. Resonant and troubling, like all good fairy tales.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pauline Holdstock's language is so powerful, her writing so wrought with emotion and beauty, that you become fully lost in her world.\" — \u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is magical. It's a fairy tale, it's magic realism, it's a beautiful story about grief and freedom. \u003ci\u003eThe Hunter and the Wild Girl\u003c\/i\u003e can be read in so many ways.\" — \u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Hunter and the Wild Girl\u003c\/i\u003e is powerful, almost elemental storytelling, an achievement not only of craft but of raw emotion. It pulses with vitality, building to a stunning, shattering conclusion.\" — \u003ci\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A turbulent, headlong, exhilarating rush will sweep you into this fairy tale of a lost girl breaching the self-exile of a haunted man — a hunter who cannot hunt, who is both ogre and hero. In exquisitely beautiful prose, with echoes from both Charles Perrault and \u003ci\u003eGormenghast\u003c\/i\u003e, Holdstock spins austere enchantment.\" — Marina Endicott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What a gorgeous, heart-breaking story! \u003ci\u003eThe Hunter and the Wild Girl\u003c\/i\u003e is both courageous and risky, and it works so beautifully — there are breathtaking moments of grace — simple observations that turn suddenly and quietly exquisite. It takes Holdstock a few lines to draw readers in with her wild girl and just a few pages to make them love her.\" — Thomas Trofimuk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Hunter and the Wild Girl\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds like a dark and wonderful fairy tale. A remarkable, engrossing story with not a word out of place.\" — Charlotte Gill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The novel is beautiful, poignant and mysterious. There is a fairy-tale aspect to the story, though without moral or resolution...\u003ci\u003eThe Hunter and the Wild Girl\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning reminder that grief is something to be lived, an important creative force with the power to bring us together.\" — \u003ci\u003eHerizons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: January 23, 2018\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pauline Holdstock","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9781773100449\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$22.95","offer_id":46049032142,"sku":"9781773100449","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864928627\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$32.95","offer_id":46049032206,"sku":"9780864928627","price":32.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/products\/9781773100449_FC_1024x1024_785262ba-1a16-4cfc-a53d-a24d23d61206.jpg?v=1630051241"},{"product_id":"passion-over-reason-la-passion-avant-la-raison-english-french","title":"Passion over Reason \/ la passion avant la raison","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePassion. Reason. Opposites attract.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is no secret that Tom Thomson (1877-1917) and Joyce Wieland (1930-1998) never met. Their art could not be further apart stylistically or methodologically. Thomson was a colourist, armed with brushes and oil paints. Wieland was an activist who drew upon an arsenal of wide-ranging contemporary media and whose work is ground-breaking in the annals of feminist art. Yet, Wieland also celebrated her attraction to Thomson. \u003ci\u003ePassion Over Reason\u003c\/i\u003e explores Wieland’s and Canada’s fascination with Thomson and his status as a cult figure of masculine mystique, while re-examining the mythology of his life story. Wieland was an equally heroic artist. She established a career as an experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist, working primarily in Toronto but also in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePassion Over Reason: Tom Thomson \u0026amp; Joyce Wieland\u003c\/i\u003e commemorates the art of these two Canadian-born artists, while at the same time contributing a feminist perspective to the long-held narrative of Thomson. The book mixes sexuality and gender with politics, and nature and nationalism with the formation of a collective identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLa Passion Avant la Raison: Tom Thomson \u0026amp; Joyce Wieland\u003c\/i\u003e rend hommage à deux artistes révolutionnaires du Canada. Considère cette œuvre comme une lettre d’amour à Tom Thomson, et bien au Canada — et aussi comme conversation entre des chefs-d’œuvre de Thomson et Joyce Wieland, pionnière d’art féministe et contemporain au Canada. On a souvent dit de Wieland qu’elle considérait le Canada comme une femme. Thomson était donc pour elle le meilleur amant pour son pays bien-aimé. Bien que la passion ait toujours fait partie intégrante de son art, Wieland favorise le patriotisme par ses explorations de symboles canadiens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSon amour et fascination profond pour Thomson et pour Canada se révèle dans la publication \u003ci\u003eTrue Patriot Love\u003c\/i\u003e, publié en conjonction avec son exposition du même titres au Musée des beaux-arts du Canada. Là-dedans, Wieland a effectivement subsumé un recueil de la flore arctique publié par le gouvernement: elle infiltrant avec l’aiguille, les annotations et les photos prises par Tom Thomson. Cette publication a planté les graines pour son film \u003ci\u003eThe Far Shore\u003c\/i\u003e. 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For anyone who has experienced the highs and lows of love and wants to know they are not alone.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatricia Young's new collection confirms her status as one of Canada's great and most versatile contemporary poets. In \u003ci\u003eAmateurs at Love\u003c\/i\u003e, she explores the dynamic, liminal space between lovers, taking precise aim at the silent climacteric moments of the heart: the interrogating, persuading, confiding, reflecting moments that help us feel and understand that distance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer response is unexpected, unsettling and emotionally pungent. To the question of what is love, her interlocutor answers,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI think it means a boxcar going off the rails, grain spilling down a gully, fermenting over summer, a bear gorging on that grain, passing out in a field, a bear that could wake any moment, hung-over and thirsty and ready to kill for a drop of water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In forms ranging wildly from pangramic love songs to prose poems, Young guides her readers through the many layers of human relationship with unappeasable joy. Her poetic voice, her bold and unconventional metaphors, her rich incantatory rhythms and linguistic dexterity, lure us into a pulsing universe that leaves no aspect of human nature unblemished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003ePatricia Young has published twelve collections of poetry and one of short fiction. Her poems have been widely anthologized and she has received numerous awards for her writing, including the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, the B.C. Book Prize, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, a CBC Literary Prize, several National Magazine Awards, the Bliss Carman Award, and the Confederation Poets Prize. She has twice been nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry. She lives in Victoria.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAmateurs at Love\u003c\/i\u003e is as delectable as anything I've read in ages. Young delivers her salty truths in dreamscapes that straddle a ridge between drollery and devastating one-two punches. Here you will find prickly pangramics, grousing animalia, family fables, insight and allegory, and — as in the best of teh best — yourself.\" — Sharon McCartney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These poems could well be anyone's story, but each told in light touches is particular, the tone sometimes dark, if kept steadfastly whimsical in intent. A horse gorges on fermented daisies. Mice haunt a cottage with their absence. A boy comes to understand his mother has no answers for him. Not Patricia Young. Thankfully, in \u003ci\u003eAmateurs at Love\u003c\/i\u003e, she has found one for almost everything.\" — John Barton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eAmateurs at Love\u003c\/i\u003e, Patricia Young reveals parallel realities, not ghosts but fleeting glimpses of ourselves. Everyday love coexists as drama on a momentary stage, just on the other side of a veil, or it lives in a dreamlike state in which we are not sure if we are being dreamed or are dreamers. 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She later became known as the magic-marker-wielding \"grandmother of Inuit art,\" famous for her fluid graphic storytelling and her stunning depictions of wildlife. She was a defining figure in Inuit art and one of the first Indigenous artists to be embraced as a contemporary Canadian artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAshevak's legacy inspired her nephew, Timootee (Tim) Pitsiulak, to take up drawing at the Kinngait Studios. In his relatively short career, he became a popular figure, known for drawing animal figures with a hunter's precision and capturing the technological presence of the South in Nunavut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTunirrusiangit\u003c\/i\u003e, \"their gifts\" or \"what they gave\" in Inuktitut, celebrates the achievements of two remarkable artists who challenged the parameters of tradition while consistently articulating a compelling vision of the Inuit world view. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, opening on 16 June and continuing until late August, \u003ci\u003eTunirrusiangit\u003c\/i\u003e features more than 60 reproductions of paintings, drawings, and documentary photographs. Completing the book are essays by contemporary artists and curators Jocelyn Piirainen, Anna Hudson, Georgiana Uhlyarik, Koomuatuk Curley, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, and Taqralik Partridge that address both the past and future of Inuit identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eAnna Hudson is a professor of Canadian art history and curatorial studies at York University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorgiana Uhlyarik is Fredrik S. Eaton Curator, Canadian Art, and co-lead of the Indigenous + Canadian Art Department at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She works collaboratively with artists and curators from across the Americas and Europe and teaches art at York University and the University of Toronto. Her publications include \u003ci\u003eMoving the Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMagnetic North: Imagining Canada in Painting 1910–40\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTunirrusiangit: Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRita Letendre: Fire \u0026amp; Light\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePicturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFlorine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKenojuak Ashevak (1927-2013), an Order of Canada recipient, is known as the \"grandmother of Inuit art,\" Famous for her fluid graphic storytelling and stunning use of magic markers, she quickly became a defining figure and one of the first Indigenous artists to be embraced as a Canadian contemporary artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAshevak's legacy inspired her nephew, Timootee (Tim) Pitsiulak (1967-2016) to take up drawing at the Kinngait Studios. In his relatively short career, he became a popular figure, known for drawing animal figures with a hunter's precision and capturing the technological presence of the South in Nunavut.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJocelyn Piirainen is an urban Inuk, originally from Ikaluktutiak (Cambridge Bay), Nunavut. She is Associate Curator, Inuit Art in the Indigenous Ways and Decolonization department at the National Gallery of Canada. Piirainen’s recent curatorial work included \u003ci\u003eWinter Count: Embracing the Cold\u003c\/i\u003e at the National Gallery of Canada. The former Associate Curator of Inuit Art at the Winnipeg Art Gallery and Qaumajuq worked on numerous exhibitions including \u003ci\u003eᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ\/Ruovttu Guvlui\/Towards Home\u003c\/i\u003e with the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and co-curated the landmark exhibition \u003ci\u003eTunirrusiangit: Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak\u003c\/i\u003e, presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"A strong step towards a resurgence of Indigenous artists, thinkers and makers ... providing a caring and attentive opportunity to reflect on these influential artists.\" — \u003ci\u003eCanadian Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTunirrusiangit\u003c\/i\u003e beautifully showcases the legacy of these trailblazing Inuit artists while opening a door for the next generation pushing modern Inuit art forward.\" — \u003ci\u003eNOW Toronto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e160 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: June 19, 2018\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kenojuak Ashevak","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9781773100913\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$45","offer_id":9382399115321,"sku":"9781773100913","price":45.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/9781773100913_FC.jpg?v=1781165759"},{"product_id":"crow","title":"Crow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, IPPY Award for Best First Book (Fiction) \u003cbr\u003eWinner, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eRunner-up, Leacock Medal for Humour\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted, Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award \u003cbr\u003eShortlisted, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction\u003cbr\u003eLong-Shortlisted, 2020 ReLit Award (Novel Category)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Stacey Fortune is diagnosed with three highly unpredictable — and inoperable — brain tumours, she abandons the crumbling glamour of her life in Toronto for her mother Effie's scruffy trailer in rural Cape Breton. Back home, she's known as Crow, and everybody suspects that her family is cursed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith her future all but sealed, Crow decides to go down in a blaze of unforgettable glory by writing a memoir that will raise eyebrows and drop jaws. She'll dig up \"the dirt\" on her family tree, including the supposed curse, and uncover the truth about her mysterious father, who disappeared a month before she was born.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut first, Crow must contend with an eclectic assortment of characters, including her gossipy Aunt Peggy, hedonistic party-pal Char, homebound best friend Allie, and high-school flame Willy. She'll also have to figure out how to live with her mother and how to muddle through the unsettling visual disturbances that are becoming more and more vivid each day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWitty, energetic, and crackling with sharp Cape Breton humour, \u003ci\u003eCrow\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of big twists, big personalities, big drama, and even bigger heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eAmy Spurway was born and raised on Cape Breton, where, at the age of 11, she landed her first writing and performing gigs with CBC Radio. She has worked as a communications consultant, editor, speech-writer, and performer. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eToday's Parent\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBabble\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eElephant Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003e: Leacock Medal for Humour\u003cbr\u003eWinner: Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted: Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted: Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction\u003cbr\u003eWinner: IPPY Award for Best First Book (Fiction)\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted: ReLit Award (Novel Category)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"Spurway's use of language is skilful, making the novel highly readable. Crow is ribald, blunt, accessible, and immediately likeable, tumours and all ... You know how people say, \"You'll laugh, you'll cry\"? You will. And you will.\" — \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ridiculously good.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCrow\u003c\/i\u003e delighted me and amazed me the further I read, with its freshness, its daring, its refusal to conform (and the projectile vomiting).\" — \u003ci\u003ePickle Me This\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Angry, petty, disillusioned, sharp-tongued, battered and bruised by the years, prone to snap decisions and judgments, and yet not a little scared of dying at 40, she's a complex and contradictory figure whose narrating tones relay very human traits — fallibility and indomitability, blindness and insight — via homespun, salty language.\" — \u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"How can you resolve the sharpness of tragedy into a fairy-tale ending? Somehow, Spurway manages it. But even if she lays the sentimentality on pretty thick, she also proves even a Crow's laughter can be pretty infectious.\" — \u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tender, raw, and compassionate, \u003ci\u003eCrow\u003c\/i\u003e tackles the life-changing events thrown at her and muscles them down to her control, leaving readers breathless in the face of her honesty and hard-earned truths.\" — Donna Morrissey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Amy Spurway comes out swinging with this raw, unflinching, and emotionally urgent debut novel. Be forewarned, \u003ci\u003eCrow\u003c\/i\u003e is as empowering and comic as it is unsettling and disarming. I love it.\" — Joel Thomas Hynes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I think \u003ci\u003eCrow\u003c\/i\u003e is great. It depicts a side of Cape Breton populated by characters that are flawed and achingly real. It's poignant and funny.\" — Lesley Crewe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Amy Spurway catches perfectly the engine that is Cape Breton Island. Her cast of divine lunatics, pogey-scammers, gossips, and big-hearted rebels, revealed through Spurway's lively and lucid prose, proves that Cape Breton is still the thought-control centre of Canada.\" — Wayne Grady\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There is dark desperation and there is the lightness of hope.\" — \u003ci\u003eCanadian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Engaging, relentlessly entertaining and written with enormous passion and great wit. \u003ci\u003eCrow\u003c\/i\u003e is a notable debut, and Amy Spurway is a writer worth watching.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Fiddlehead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The most hilarious book I’ve ever read, a narrative voice that gets locked in your head, and a story full of twists and turns and surprises.\" — \u003ci\u003eAll Lit Up\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e312 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: April 2, 2019\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Amy Spurway","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9781773100234\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$25","offer_id":14535681310777,"sku":"9781773100234","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/9781773100234_FC_b4cc217f-3767-4f81-a2de-1d4d5d7305eb.jpg?v=1781165775"}],"url":"https:\/\/gooselane.com\/collections\/mothers-day.oembed?page=3","provider":"Goose Lane Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}